Newtown Support Groups
Friday, July 1Â Â Â Â Â Â
AA, Newtown United Methodist Church, 92 Church Hill Road, 8 pm, beginners meeting, open discussion.
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Helping Kids Stay In Touch
With Nature
To the Editor,
It was a treat last week to read about Emily Korth, champion rock climber at Clemson University. Thank yo...
Theater Review—
Richter Is Off To A Good Start With ‘Gypsy’
By Julie Stern
DANBURY — Rainy weather delayed our g...
‘Made In The USA’ Room
Lets Hollandia Customers Buy American
BETHEL — Below a large American flag pegged to the ceiling at ...
Doggone Etiquette —
School’s Out!
By Bardi McLennan
A Word to the Dog:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â
Now it’s really summer va...
Helping The Seahawks To Victory
Newtown’s Megan Goyda, Katie Laaksonen and their Connecticut Seahawks 12U fastpitch softball team captured a sevent...
Doggone Etiquette —
School’s Out!
By Bardi McLennan
A Word to the Dog:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â
Now it’s really summer va...
Share Newtown’s history with Newtown old-timers and newcomers alike by passing on photos of interest to The Newtown Bee. The Bee welcomes submission...
Twenty Years Of Love And Labor Make A
‘Home Sweet Home’
By Nancy K. Crevier
When Chuck and Jeanetta Miller of Newtown retire this summe...
Pickin’ & Fiddlin’ Returnin’
ROXBURY — Thirty seven years ago, Roxbury Volunteer Fire Department in conjunction ...
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).