The next Friday Bingo Night at St Rose of Lima School is scheduled for November 16.
Doors open at 5:45, and games run from 6:30 until approximately 9:30 in the ...
Congregation Adath Israel will dedicate its Shabbat service on Saturday, November 3, to the memory of the 11 people who were victims of the October 27 shooting ...
To the Editor:
I am writing to endorse Rebekah Harriman-Stites for the 106th Legislative district in Connecticut. Rebekah is a good listener, works collaborativ...
To the Editor:
I will be voting for Tony Hwang on Tuesday, November 6. Tony has served Newtown very well as senator for the 28th district since first elected to...
The Town Clerk’s office at the Municipal Center, 3 Primrose Street, Fairfield Hills, will hold special absentee voting hours Saturday, November 3, from 9 am to ...
The final score of 21-0 was a bit deceptive. Newtown High School’s football team was held to just one touchdown until the midpoint of the fourth quarter, its le...
After thousands of entries had been cast, the Newtown Lions Club had its much-anticipated Classic Mustang Car Raffle drawing on Saturday, October 20.
Club membe...
Throughout October, local fire companies visited Newtown elementary schools to share fire safety tips as part of annual fire prevention activities.
National Fir...
All who have generously given their time to ring the bell for the local Salvation Army chapter are invited to join Red Kettle Campaign organizers on Saturday, N...
Newtown High School students are preparing for this year’s fall drama production, The Crucible, which will be staged November 15 to 18 at the school .
Performan...
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).