Five Meters Found
Police are holding for safekeeping five mechanical meters that were found earlier this summer near the intersection of South Main Street ...
Glimpse Of The Garden—
In The Garden Of Eating
By Nancy K. Crevier
“A Glimpse Of The Garden
” is an ongoing series fo...
Middle School Baseball
Matt Memoli, coach of the Newtown High School baseball team, offers a Fall Baseball Academy for middle school players ages 11-14 or in gr...
NYBA Travel Meeting
The Newtown Youth Basketball Association will hold an informal meeting for parents interested in having children try out for a travel team, ...
Willing Residents Sought To Serve
First Selectman Pat Llodra has announced the following board and commission openings are available, and is requesting resident...
Barn Homes Needed For Cats
The Animal Center is seeking adopters who have warm and safe barn or shed for feral cats.
Barn cats are environmentally safe solutio...
Youth Basketball
The Newtown Youth Basketball Association’s winter season registration is open through October 15 for all leagues except the Senior ...
Responsibility Should Be
Part Of A Bus Company’s Policy
To the Editor:
The first week of school has finished with a bang. The fifth grade Reed Rall...
Senior services for Newtown seniors are available at the Multipurpose Building on Riverside Road in Sandy Hook. The Senior Center is under the auspices of the C...
The Biggest Threat
To America
To the Editor:
The “empty suits” and “pant loads” in Washington have stolen from ...
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).