Unity and Diversity is a weekly television program featuring interviews with leaders and representatives of various local religious communities. Those who w...
Every spring and fall, youth soccer players of a variety of ages — and abilities — run around the local fields to have fun and develop their skills.
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HealingNewtown.org has welcomed spring with enthusiasm, with the continuation of popular workshops and the introduction of another new offering.
Workshops are o...
Newtown Historical Society is hoping to find some new docents, to join members when presenting programs for the public. An educational seminar has been schedule...
DANBURY — The Gallery at Still River Editions will begin hosting “Discovering Solitude: Photographs by Paul R. Berger” on April 12. The exhibition features the ...
Mary Rose Boyko, 86, of Shelton died April 3 in Griffin Hospital in Derby. She was born in Sandy Hook, May 3, 1927, and was the daughter of the late Elizabeth (...
Miriam Taishoff Gerry, 91, of Trumbull, formerly of Norwalk and a former 20-year resident of Newtown, died suddenly but peacefully at her home April 2. Born in...
“One and done!”
That was the final comment of longtime budget critic and Legislative Council member Dan Amaral as he stood with fellow council members, and the ...
Mother Nature had to stick her tongue out at us one last time this season, on Monday morning. A coating of sleet and giant snowflakes were not what I wanted to ...
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).