Newtown Horticulture Club will host an author talk with Melanie Boyer on Thursday, March 12, at 7 pm, in the lower level of Newtown Meeting House, 31 Main Stree...
It’s not only spring flowers poppin’ up in the unseasonable warmth and rain we have recently had, but in some yards, frogs are poppin’ and a-hoppin’, too. One S...
Newtown Cultural Arts Commission (NCAC) has announced it will award multiple grants of $1,250 each this season.
Three awards will be made to assist three deserv...
More than 150 attendees sampled Creole-inspired cuisine and a selection of beverages, socialized, and danced to mix of pop and Zydeco music as the Newtown Chamb...
Newtown Percussion competed at the WGI Trumbull Regional at Trumbull High School on February 29 and earned bronze.
Groups from Connecticut, Pennsylvania, New Je...
The Gettysburg College Choir and Camerata will give a free concert on Sunday, March 8, at 7 pm, at Newtown Congregational Church, 14 West Street.
A freewill off...
Award-winning floral designers Margareta Kotch and Peggy Townsend met recently to select some of the plants they will be including in their upcoming program dem...
Who is hiking on local trails? A new online survey regarding trail use seeks answers to this and other questions.
The members of the Newtown Bike & Trails Commi...
Friday, March 6
AA, Newtown United Methodist Church, 92 Church Hill Road, 8 pm. Beginners meeting, open discussion.
Saturday, March 7
AA Daily Reflect...
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).