To the Editor:Bee regarding Gary Mudgett's retirement from the postal service, I found a nice note in my mailbox. It was from Gary, thanking me for the letter a...
Newtown High School's field hockey team came from behind for a 4-3 overtime win at South-West Conference rival Joel Barlow of Redding on September 27, blanked v...
This letter addressed to First Selectman Pat Llodra was received for publication in The Newtown Bee.
Dear Selectman Llodra:
It has come to my attention tha...
To the Editor:
Newtown has an important election coming up on November 7. We are voting for a new first selectman, the highest ranking official in Newtown. Rece...
Newtown High School's girls' soccer team continued its unbeaten ways to begin the season with a 5-2 triumph over visiting New Milford, at Treadwell Park, on Oct...
Robert "Bobby Hollywood" Barresi, 69, of Jupiter, Fla., formerly of Sandy Hook, died October 3. Mr Barresi was born on September 14, 1948, in Bridgeport.
He was...
Decades before Newtown Police Department (NPD) K-9s Baro and Saint, there were at least five police dog names I found recently while scouring an old NPD scrapbo...
Newtown High School's cross country teams visited Statford on October 3. The girls defeated Stratford 15-50 and Bethel 24-37, and the boys beat Stratford 15-50 ...
Three nights after the nation's most recent mass casualty incident, during which nearly 60 people were killed and another 500-plus were injured at the hands of ...
Newtown Yoga Center owner Aline Marie has announced that the Yoga Mat Art Show previously scheduled for Friday, October 6, has been postponed to Saturday Decemb...
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).