A reminder this week that Dan Rosenthal is inviting residents to put on their walking shoes and step outdoors with him. The first selectman is resurrecting Walk...
Newtown First Selectman Dan Rosenthal and Health District Director Donna Culbert are now empowered by a new executive order to initiate a masking mandate, but a...
August 2, 1996
Anyone who has not made it through their summer reading list may want to stockpile a few books because the Booth Library will be closed Augu...
Because of delays due to lack of supplies and a delayed contractor, Newtown Public Works is running approximately a month behind on the summer’s proposed road w...
The next movie to be offered free of charge at Edmond Town Hall is a prequel featuring an Academy Award-winning actress who plays one of cinema’s most notorious...
Mackie Samoskevich has tallied a lot of goals on the ice; now, he is one step closer to scoring one of his biggest.
It is possible we will see this Sandy Hook n...
At the next meeting of the Society of Creative Arts of Newtown (SCAN), Adele Moros will present a “failed painting” clinic.
The presentation will be in the lowe...
Newtown United Methodist Church has the solution for local residents hanging on to items they no longer know what to do with.
The church is planning a tag sale ...
Upon moving to Newtown seven years ago, Enlighten Infrared Sauna Studio owner Jaclyn Antoinette was a stay-at-home mom with a passion for wellness and athletics...
Work continues on the first of two bridges that carry Interstate 84 over the Housatonic River. Collectively referred to as the Rochambeau Bridge, Bridges 01218 ...
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).