Michael Lucas III, of Shelton, passed away at his home, June 3, with his loving family at his side, at the age of 73. He was born on April 21, 1948, in Danbury,...
With Newtown High School’s first streaming spring musical complete, the stage is “set” for the next streaming musical. The Mystery of Edwin Drood will stream Ju...
A team from Newtown High School took home two awards after the virtual 2021 Expo Fest awards ceremony on May 27.
The team took part in the Skills21 at EdAdvance...
Newtown resident Diane Costallos and her 10-year-old daughter Aspen had a full circle moment on May 13, when they got to witness the much-anticipated release of...
A trio of Nighthawk event champions were crowned as Newtown High School’s track and field teams competed in the Class LL state championships at Willow Brook Par...
Flagpole Photographers Camera Club will wrap their 2020-21 season this month with a competition meeting.
The theme for the month of June is “Splash,” with “Stre...
It had been a long time since a non-virtual race took place in Newtown. On Saturday, June 5, the Rooster Run returned and made for a fun, yet competitive, morni...
Baron, a yellow Labrador service dog with The Exceptional Sidekick Service Dogs, has died, as announced by the nonprofit organization’s owner Abby Hill.
Baron w...
The public is invited to join staff and administration of the C.H. Booth Library for a fun and happy retirement celebration honoring longtime assistant director...
The dispatchers at the Newtown Emergency Communications Center, at 191 South Main Street, report the following fire calls and responders:
Wednesday, May 26:...
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).