Lightning Baseball Team Sweeps Double Header
The Newtown Lightning swept the first day-night doubleheader in its history Saturday at Sandy Hook’s Wa...
Newtown High School Athletes Of The Year
Newtown High School’s sports teams fielded many talented athletes during the 2007-08 school year. Thos...
Mattatuck Museum Receives Gift: Tim Prentice Kinetic Sculpture
WATERBURY — The Mattatuck Museum Arts & History Center has added “Oculus,...
St Rose Women Share Supper, Elect Officers
The St Rose Women’s Club recently enjoyed an evening of fellowship along with a delicious meal at Armando...
Food Services To Be First Initiative—
Planetree Selects New Milford Hospital As Affiliate
NEW MILFORD — Planetree, a Derby-based nonpro...
Margaret B. Shannon
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s On The River In Sandy Hook
Margaret “Peggy” (Brinckerhoff) Shannon, 82, of Wi...
Alicia Woolf of Sandy Hook made the Dean’s List at the University of Maryland for the spring 2008 semester. She is a member of the College of Be...
Online Handcrafters Featured At The Farm Market
By Nancy K. Crevier
Visitors to the Sandy Hook Organic Farmers’ Market on Tuesday, July 1, found mor...
Etheridge’s Revival Tour Effectively Mixes Message, Music
Review & Photos
By John Voket
What a revival it was!
After turning highly critical of Gr...
Newtown: Where People Get Involved
To the Editor:
One of our residents and one of our civil servants have shown that it is, indeed, “Nicer In Newtow...
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).