Margaret "Peggy" Katherine (Mountain) Morgan, 90, of Sandy Hook died April 4 in New Milford. Born in Berlin, N.H., she was the oldest of Dorothy and Robert Moun...
The two-time South-West Conference boys' golf champions from Newtown High School know returnees to the lineup will have to turn up their level of play to be in ...
To the Editor:
At the BOS [Board of Selectmen] meeting on 4/3/17 the Newtown Community Center was once again discussed.
In last week's Letter to the Editor, I r...
The Town of Newtown has issued a warning for potential local flooding conditions beginning early Wednesday evening, April 5, through Saturday afternoon ...
NEW HAVEN - Sandy Hook resident Hanna Roehrs took home a pair of ribbons following Saturday's opening reception and awards ceremony for "Weavers' Heaven," the 2...
HARTFORD- Governor Dannel P. Malloy has announced that - in accordance with a proclamation from President Donald J. Trump - U.S. and state flags in Connecticut ...
Flagpole Photographers Camera Club invites the public for the club's April events, which include a still life photography presentation and a hands-on workshop p...
On Friday, May 19, Fun Music Presents will produce its hit Back to The Eighties Show with Jessie's Girl at Edmond Town Hall Theatre for the residents of Newtown...
Registration for this summer's session of Camp Creativity will open at 8 am Friday, April 7.told The Newtown Bee in March that, "In the morning there are struct...
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).