One game after an overtime heartbreaker, Newtown High School’s girls’ lacrosse team got back to its one-goal winning ways with a 6-5 victory at Joel Barlow of R...
Newtown United Methodist Church will host a take-out spaghetti dinner this month.
Candice Rothe and a team of volunteers will prepare the meals, which will be s...
Newtown-based dance school the Ashurst Academy of Irish Dance recently sent two dancers to Belfast, Ireland, to compete in the World Irish Dancing Championships...
Newtown High School’s girls’ tennis team defeated host New Fairfield 7-0 on April 27. Willow Assante-LaBash won 6-0, 6-1, Madi Singlak won 6-1, 6-1, Sophia Duts...
Riders from Southbury-based Cavalier Farm had quite a showing in the Interscholastic Equestrian Association (IEA) National Finals in Harrisburg, Penn., April 28...
Young children attending the Newtown High School Students Advocating For Diversity and Equity (SADE) club April 23 Read Aloud event at C.H. Booth Library, learn...
NEW FAIRFIELD - State Police say a Sandy Hook resident was pronounced dead following a New Fairfield incident late Saturday night, May 7.
Newtown First Selectm...
The dispatchers at the Newtown Emergency Communications Center, at 191 South Main Street, report the following fire calls and the responders:
Wednesday, Apr...
The Newtown High School girls’ and boys’ track teams traveled to the 40th O’Grady Relays in Danbury this past weekend. The girls’ team set three school records,...
Rear-Ended At Red Light
Newtown Police report Arqum Chaudary, 24, of Monroe, operating a 2019 Toyota Camry, was traveling northbound on Berkshire Road at 7...
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).