Advent Lessons And Carols Service At Trinity This Weekend
Trinity Episcopal Church will offer its annual Advent Lessons and Carols service on Sunday, December 3...
Town Center Traffic Plan Slated For Discussion
By Andrew Gorosko
The borough government will hold a public session on a long-awaited traffic plan that lists a w...
Correction
An incorrect phone number was given for Antonio’s Bistro of Brookfield in a dining feature in the November 17 issue of The Bee, page A-12...
College Students Share Their Experiences At NHS
By Laurie Borst
The lobby at Newtown High School was packed with students on the morning of November 22. Members...
The Career Center At Newtown High School Lists Scholarships
The Career Center publicizes all scholarships of which it is notified. A few of the scholarships, ty...
Info Sessions Planned
Parents of Newtown and Sandy Hook eighth graders are invited to attend an informal coffee hosted by the Newtown High School Counseling Dep...
(1) If the gift is for a child, did you check with the parents to see if they agree with having a puppy? The age of the child is very important. Many people...
Commentary—
You’re Not Hungry, Silly … Just Insecure
By Donald Kaul
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, on the eve of his nomination for p...
Care And Feeding Of The Grieving Soul
By Laurie Borst
On the afternoon of November 21, Ashlar of Newtown offered a “Lunch and Learn” at ...
I am sorry but $88.8 million dollars to educate 4030 kids is way out of line! That's over $22k per kid, used to be $8k per kid, the kids aren't getting any smarter, the administration eats all the cost. Time to cut the budget by 20% and also cut the $225k salary of the superintendent and $193k of the superintendent assistant ! You can get a lot of teachers for $400k wasted for 2 overpaid positions. Common sense should tell you that spending $2.5 million per every week for population less than 30k people is just way too high! Also voting should be done by mail, enough with these nonsensical referendums where barely 16% of voters show up. 51% voters approval should be MANDATED!
Who have you asked that didn't know where to cut? Its easy. Ideally, you would start with section 100 of the budget but the union prevents that. So I say you turn to page 18, put it on your dart board, and start reducing the head count. It's all you can do when the union controls the budget.
The people have spoken, time to sharpen your pencils. If we look at the town budget for guidance the BOE should cut the budget from 4.4% to 2.75% I find the voting results very interesting ... We have approximately 4,030 students in our town, with a published 12:1 ratio which means we have 335 teachers. I would love to know the actual number if someone knows. If we account for their spouses that gets us very close to the number of people who voted yes for the budget and wished it would be higher (729).