Rocking Roosters Square Dance Club of Newtown is planning an “Introduction to Modern Square Dancing” series.
The first two sessions are being offered at no char...
The Reverend William Henry West, of Old Saybrook, died peacefully at the Connecticut Hospice in Branford, on Thursday, August 26, after a long and valiant strug...
A number of stories were posted to newtownbee.com this past weekend. In case you missed them, here is a list of some of those stories.
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Our beloved wife, mother, and nonni, Alida B. Shea, passed away with her husband by her side on September 2, after a very courageous and difficult battle with c...
Nearly four dozen people gathered in the community room of the Nunnawauk Meadows Community Building recently to hear a guest speaker sharing the history of Bige...
Last season, Newtown High School’s cheerleading team won all three of its virtual competitions. The team hopes for more success with a return to traditional, in...
Occupation: I am a realtor with Berkshire Hathaway in Newtown and I also have an independent LuLaRoe boutique in our home. I’ve been selling clothes for fiv...
Each week we compile a list of some of the most-read stories published at newtownbee.com. Here is a roundup of the week’s top stories, based on the number of pa...
Frances Elizabeth (Morgan) Denninger, 67, formerly of Newtown, passed away September 7, in Danbury. She was born in Valley Stream, N.Y., in 1953 and graduated f...
Catherine Elaine Mummery, 82, of Newtown, passed away Saturday evening, September 4, surrounded by family who loved her dearly, with her daughter Diane, and son...
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).