Bridle Lands Association Dinner Dance Is Saturday
The Newtown Bridle Lands Association will host the Sixth Annual Dinner & Country Dance downstairs at Edmond To...
‘Passports In The Afternoon’ In Hawleyville
Recent changes in federal law require that any person traveling to destinations outside the ...
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Redding Road, Redding
Estate of Domenick Mecozzi recently sold the property at 181 Redding Road, Redding, to Louise Anselmo of Riverside, N.Y.
Marilyn Slop...
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A Million Dollar Baby:
M.J. Heade At Eldred’s
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Helen Bartko of Anthem, Ariz., to Denise George of Newtown, residential property at 233 Hattertown Road for $329,600. Denise George of Newtown to Carols De Alme...
Sandy Hook Center—
WSA Endorses Extending Sewers
To Condo Complex
By Andrew Gorosko
The Water and Sewer Authority (WSA) has granted preliminary a...
Annual Cemetery Cleanup
The Village Cemetery Association has announced that it will be removing all decorations from the stones in the cemetery after March 7.
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Saturdays (through mid-Dec): 39th Season Woodbury’s Famous Antiques & Flea Market, 787 Main St South (Rte 6, near Rte 64)...
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).