Books Make New Buddies For Students At Hawley
By Eliza Hallabeck
Tears were shed at Hawley School this week as the Senior Book Buddies Club neared the end of it...
Local Man Faces Sex, Drug Charges
Police served warrants against a Pootatuck Park man at his home midday on June 4, arresting him on 19 serious offenses, many o...
Another Great
Rooster Run
To the Editor:
Thanks to all that turned out on Saturday, May 31, to support the Newtown Parks and Recreation 34th annual Rooster Run...
Newtown Support Groups
Friday, June 6Â Â Â Â Â Â Â
AA, Newtown United Methodist Church, 92 Church Hill Road, 8 pm, beginners meeting, open discussion.
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Joseph W.
Jasmin, Jr
Member Of
Hat City Riders
Joseph W. “Jazz” Jasmin, Jr, 58, of Brookfield, devoted husband of Kathleen M...
Reed Students Weave ‘Bracelets For Bow Wows’
By Eliza Hallabeck
There are animals in need in Newtown, and the Interact Club at the Reed ...
NHS Girls’ Lacrosse Team Reached Semis For First Time
By Andy Hutchison
TRUMBULL — The Newtown High School girls’ lacrosse t...
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A Helping Hand
From The Scouts
To the Editor:
It is with tremendous gratitude that we publicly thank the Boy Scouts of Troop 270 of Newtown and The Scatacook C...
Marie A. Cains
Avid Animal Lover
Marie A. Cains, 73, of West Palm Beach, Fla., died May 25 at Good Samaritan Hospital in West Palm Beach. She was born in t...
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).