Housatonic Valley Waldorf School, 40 Dodgingtown Road, is offering Morning Glories Parent & Child classes. The winter session begins January 10 and runs for ten...
Newtown Choral Society will perform Gabriel Faure's Cantique plus jazz by Dave Brubeck and works by Aaron Copland, among others, on Sunday, January 15, at 3:30 ...
Newtown remained a rural farming town during the Industrial Revolution, while towns like Derby and Waterbury became manufacturing centers. On Monday, January 9,...
The first snow of 2017 brought a little more accumulation than what the National Weather Service had been predicting for Newtown, but it still was not enough to...
Occupation: I am Newtown's municipal animal control officer. I have always loved animals. I worked part-time on weekends at the old pound, then I was hired ...
A number of Newtown High School orchestra, band, and chorus students visited Reed Intermediate School on Tuesday, December 20, to perform for and inspire the fi...
Along with being able to borrow books, movies, board games, and countless other recreational wonders, the C.H. Booth Library now offers patrons the power of the...
The Genealogy Club of Newtown invites the public to join members for the club's next monthly meeting, to be held on Wednesday, January 11.
This month's guest wi...
Members of a Kindness Committee at Hawley Elementary School hosted an assembly on Friday, December 23, to celebrate kindness. The event featured the whole schoo...
Ahead of the final presentations on January 4 and 5, students in this semester's Junior/Senior Project course shared information on the projects they completed....
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).
Multi-Referendum Year?