Polling Places For The November 6 Election
Voting District 1, Newtown Middle School Gymnasium, Queen Street.
Voting District 2, Reed Intermediate School, Wasser...
Winter Wonderland Of Gifts At Edmond Town Hall, November 18
The fourth annual Winter Wonderland of Gifts Craft Fair will be taking place at Edmond Town Hall Sun...
To the Editor:
I have written several letters on behalf of Herb Rosenthal and Joe Bojnowksi, and certainly support their reelection campaign. In addition, I wou...
To the Editor:
As a longstanding Newtowner myself, I have known Joe Borst for many years. While there are many reasons that I support Joe’s candidac...
A Great Experience
To the Editor:
This is just a short note to say thanks to all of the people in Newtown who have made the last few months on the campaign trai...
To the Editor:
I am writing in support of Frank Scalzo for Legislative Council in District 1. Frank is a native Newtowner. As one of five children, he was invol...
To the Editor:
Sara Frampton would be a wonderful addition to our Board of Education. She is a creative thinker. She analyzes every problem and comes up with so...
Parent Connection Support Groups Move To New Home
Newtown Parent Connection recently announced that it has moved into a new location at 115 Mt Pleasant Road.
Th...
White Ribbon Apgainst
Pornography Week
Newtown resident John Leitner, a member of the Morality in Media anti-pornography organization and a member of the Newto...
Counterfeit $50 Bills Passed At Local Stores
By Andrew Gorosko
Police are investigating incidents in which three people used counterfeit $50 bills to buy mercha...
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).