Short Term ‘Roxbury Unearthed’—
Historic Exhibit At Hodge Library
ROXBURY — “Roxbury Unearthed,â...
Newcomers
Kick-Off Friday
Newtown Newcomers & Neighbors will host its Annual Kick-Off: A Newtown Open House on Friday, September 7. It will run from 7 to 9 pm ...
Little People Open House
Southbury — Little People of Southbury will host an open house for parents and local families Thursday, September 13, from ...
A Successful Run
To the Editor:
Words really cannot express the gratitude that the Board of Directors and staff of Newtown Youth & Family Services has for the s...
Garner Prison Staffers Train For Inmate Escapes
By Andrew Gorosko
State Department of Correction (DOC) officials recently staged a simulated prisoner escape at...
Why Joe Borst?
To the Editor:
Service: to the children, the seniors, and all people of Newtown is what Joe Borst has demonstrated. He is not interested in polit...
Shouldn’t Have To Steer Clear Of Boats On The Road
To the Editor:
This is for all the recreational and serious boaters out there in town. As I was t...
Celebrate 50 Years Of Marriage
Longtime Newtowners Doris and Eugene Travis celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary at a party given by their children Michele ...
Opening Sunday At Booth Library
“On The Road: A Photographic Exhibit by Faith and Peter Vicinanza” has opened in the Olga Knoepke Memori...
Guitarist-Singer-Songwriter Doug Wahlberg:
A Lifetime In Classic Rock
By Shannon Hicks
Doug Wahlberg has a dream of music, and touring, and making it in the m...
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).