‘Hidden In Plain View’ Next Historical Society Program
Women in the colonial and early republic eras of our history were largely exclude...
Equine Courses Offered At Post
WATERBURY — Post University’s Continuing Education classes in equine husbandry continue this month. Begin...
Eunice
Rasmussen Berglund
Lifelong Newtown Resident
Eunice Rasmussen Berglund, 86, died peacefully at home, surrounded by her loving family, January 19. S...
Christina & Alan Popowski
Christina Nicole Klanica and Alan Joseph Popowski were married on October 8, 2011, by Father Cyrus Bartolome at St Maryâ€&#x...
Connecticut Community Colleges To Bolster Manufacturing
BRIDGEPORT (AP) — Three Connecticut community colleges have been selected for new programs t...
Waldorf School Slates Valentines Celebration Fundraiser
By Eliza Hallabeck
As a fundraiser for Housatonic Valley Waldorf School, one family will offer up songs ...
Two Warrants
Police report they arrested a local man on two warrants at about 9:49 am on January 31 at a business at 153 Sugar Street.
Police said they cha...
School Board Approves Budget Proposal
By Eliza Hallabeck
Following multiple board meetings, the Board of Education reviewed and approved its 2012-13 budget Janu...
They Also Rang
To the Editor:
Last week Marie Sturdevant was kind enough to send a letter to the editor thanking our bell ringers for their help for the Salvati...
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).