Occupation: I am a commercial solar energy developer/installer. I’m the CEO at Smart Roofs Solar in Newtown. We’ve been in town a total of four years. We ge...
Town police have obtained an arrest warrant in connection with theft of four personal watercraft, commonly known as jet-skis, earlier this year from three local...
Families United in Newtown (FUN), a local grassroots nonprofit dedicated to families with special needs children and especially those on the autism spectrum, re...
Undeterred by the Planning & Zoning Commission’s (P&Z) recent unanimous rejection of its large gas station/convenience store proposed for a site near the Exit 9...
NOTE (2:32 pm): This article has been updated to reflect a change in plans for The Catherine Violet Hubbard Animal Sanctuary.
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While Newtown Historical Society cannot promise silver bells for the holidays, there will be an Open House at The Matthew Curtiss House, 44 Main Street, on Sund...
Newtown Choral Society will perform its holiday concert, A Child’s Christmas in Wales, a musical cantata by Matthew Harris, on Sunday, December 8, at 4 pm.
The ...
Stockings4Smiles is currently seeking donations, until December 16 at 5 pm, for the Women’s Center and patients at Danbury Hospital this holiday season.
The non...
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ABOUT OUR COVER. Ever since The Bee moved its printing press to Commerce Road, changes have been taking place at our place of business at 5 Ch...
UPDATE (December 5, 2019): This story has been updated with added details as well as comments and responses from the Newtown Federation of Teachers, AFT Con...
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).