Jean (Pearlman) Elias, 93, of Newtown, gently passed away on Monday, November 30, at her residence at Maplewood at Newtown in Newtown. She was the beloved wife ...
The Resiliency Center of Newtown will be open on Monday, December 14, for anyone who needs additional support or is looking for a quiet place to reflect on the ...
Election Day Collision
Kimberly J. Lynch, 49, of Sandy Hook, was traveling south on Trades Lane around 5:53 am, Tuesday, November 3, approaching a blinking...
Friends of Newtown Seniors (FONS) has a solution to help support seniors live independently with dignity, according to FONS Chore Services Lead Bev Bennett-Scha...
For Newtown residents, managing their diabetes during the pandemic has ranged from navigating the challenges of using new technology with only telehealth suppor...
Hannah Y. Cyr, 18, unexpectedly passed away on Tuesday, December 1 in West Greenwich, R.I. On April 2, 2002, in Danbury this world became a brighter place when ...
Occupation: I’ve been a Realtor at Coldwell Banker Realty in Newtown for three years now. It’s been a very exciting and rewarding journey. I have a backgrou...
State Reps Mitch Bolinsky (R-106) and JP Sredzinski (R-112) along with their Republican colleagues called on the General Assembly December 7 to act on a targete...
Peg Hogenauer, 95 years young, passed away on December 4. She was born on July 31, 1925, to the late Francis and Elizabeth (Fitzmaurice) Scholan in Waterbury.
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To the Editor:
I refuse to be silent anymore: Our Board of Education is failing our children.
The Newtown teachers are fantastic. They consistently go the extra...
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).