Caring For Neighbors
To the Editor:
The children of Winifred LeWare wish to extend our most sincere appreciation to all her friends, neighbors, and health care ...
Zoning Rule Changes—
Allowing Housing At
Fairfield Hills Slated For Hearing
By Andrew Gorosko
In view of a development firm’s interest...
Animal Center Food Drive
The Animal Center is holding a cat food drive at Super Stop & Shop in Sand Hill Plaza during the month of April.
People are asked to h...
MoveOn.org’s End Goal Is Socialism
To the Editor:
Last week while trolling on Facebook [Jackie zVon] was apparently having a bad day and decided t...
Sandy Hook School Students Named
Co-Principals For A Day
By Eliza Hallabeck
It was a busy day on Monday, March 28, for Sandy Hook School first grader Ella Hage...
Newtown’s Planning and Zoning Commission has scheduled a public hearing April 7 on whether multifamily housing should be allowed as a permitted use ...
WATERBURY — Chase Collegiate School, an independent day school for prekindergarten through grade 12, will hold an open house on Sunday, April 10.
T...
NYMA Student Meriah Tani Recently Honored, Promoted
CORNWALL-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. — The DAR-Quassick (N.Y.) Chapter Good Citizens Program and Scholarshi...
Time For The People To Be Heard
On FFH Housing
To the Editor:
Do you favor housing at Fairfield Hills?   Â
Asked another way, do you favor the sale or le...
Ava Foss
Foss is a first-grader who plays lacrosse and tennis, and just started playing softball.
Best part about playing sports: “Running aroun...
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).