All That Is Good About Newtown
To the Editor:
The incredible outpouring of support at Donate to Skate’s event this past Saturday exemplifies all tha...
For police reports
Credit Card
On July 28, police arrested Jessica Simonson, 18, of 6 Joan Drive on a warrant, charging her with theft of a credit card, il...
Thursday, July 24: 11:56 am, tree and wires down, Head O’ Meadow Road, Hook & Ladder responded.
Friday, July 25: 5:21 am, motor vehicle acci...
Sandy Hook Hauler Gets National Honor
Pat Caruso of Associated Refuse Haulers in Sandy Hook recently received the National Solid Wastes Management Associationâ&...
At the College of Saint Rose in Albany, N.Y., two residents graduated during the graduation ceremony. Andrew Kelkres received his bachelor of arts degree and Je...
Christmas Tree Move Put On Hold
By Nancy K. Crevier
Hang onto those sheaves of Christmas songs, if you were planning to greet the new spruce in Ram Pasture with...
Political Robocalls: They’re Back!
If you do not recall the midterm congressional elections of 2006, it is because the brain sometimes has a hard ti...
Summer Workshop Cabaret Performance
On August 8 at 7 pm at Newtown High School, the students of the Summer Musical Theatre Workshop will perform their first cab...
Officials Hope Suit Against Bond Rating Agencies Changes ‘Unfair Practice’
By John Voket
Two members of Newtown’s Board of F...
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).