Doggone Etiquette—
A Horse Down
By Bardi McLennan
A Word to the Dog:
All right, you’ve told us you don’t like getting w...
How do you picture Newtown in 100 years?
Sean Fahey: I just hope the robots are nice to us.
Maggie Hoolehan: I won’t be here, which is a great loss ...
A Unique Reading Of ‘Merchant of Venice’
WATERBURY — The Mattatuck Museum will transport guest to Venice during “...
Volunteers Needed To Fight Audubon Center Invasives
SOUTHBURY — On Fridays in August, the Audubon Center at Bent of the River Southbury is seeking v...
Art Exhibits ___________________
The Behnke Doherty Gallery, 6 Green Hill, Washington Depot; 860-868-1655.
Through Aug 5: “The Space Between,â&...
What the Heck is Going On?
To the Editor:
What the heck is going on? I recently received a card mailer from Republican Fifth District Congressional candidate Li...
We die daily. Happy are those who daily come to life as well.
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Newtown Support Groups
Friday, August 3Â Â Â Â Â
AA, Newtown United Methodist Church, 92 Church Hill Road, 8 pm, beginners meeting, open discussion.
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One Man’s Sign Of Patriotism
By Kendra Bobowick
The Patriotic Spirit’s glossy pages slipped through Barbara Johann’s fin...
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).