Update: Moments after this article was posted, the baseball game was rescheduled to a date to be determined.
A few weeks ago, as spring sports athletes anx...
On Wednesday, May 4, from 2 to 3 pm, C.H. Booth Library will offer a special program for older adults interested in anything "tech."
Learn what's available in t...
Newtown High School's boys' volleyball team, entering into just its second season, is hoping to build off of what it accomplished a year ago: Earning its first ...
For three decades, Gregg Simon has been involved with Newtown's school district - the last 17 years as athletic director at Newtown High School, during which ti...
Newtown is going to have a new community center.
With 1,628 voters choosing Yes to a 1,205 count of No votes on Tuesday, April 5, a proposal for a new community...
To the Editor:
A few thoughts about events past and present:
In the spring and summer of 2013 two members of the Conservation Commission worked on a committee c...
A pair of late-game goal-saving plays - one by a defender and another by the goaltender - and a tie-breaking tally off the stick of Nevan Gattey with 2:09 to pl...
Registration for Camp Creativity, offered through The Resiliency Center of Newtown, officially opens on Friday, April 8, at 8 am.
At that time a live link will ...
To the Editor:
On behalf of the entire Sandy Hook 5k Organizing Committee, we would like to extend a heartfelt thank you to everyone who came together ...
Newtown High School's boys' lacrosse team shook off a 15-4 loss to host Fairfield Prep on April 2 with a hard-fought 12-10 win at South-West Conference rival Br...
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).