A Newtown resident has driven his way — carbon-free — to a Guinness World Record in conjunction with the General Motors subsidiary BrightDrop and FedEx.
GM anno...
Many residents came out to the Low-Cost Rabies Vaccination Clinic at the Brian J. Silverlieb Animal Care and Control Center on Saturday, May 14.
Dr Rakesh Vali,...
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.
"Origin Of May 24 Main St...
The town is in the final stages of securing $850,000 in bonding to demolish buildings and remediate hazardous materials at two Sandy Hook center properties. Bot...
MONROE — On Wednesday, June 15, the Newtown Giving Circle of Regional Hospice and Palliative Care will hold its 31st Summer Breakfast at The Waterview, 215 Roos...
Since the COVID pandemic arrived in 2020, Newtown Middle School Art Enrichment students have not participated in the annual in-school day of art field trips. Th...
Donald Augustus Belanger, age 91 of Sandy Hook, passed away at home surrounded by loving family on Tuesday, May 31, 2022. He is predeceased by his loving wife, ...
Hawley Elementary School students met author and illustrator Deborah Freedman when she visited the school on May 19.
Hawley Library/Media Specialist Erika Carls...
Anthony M Carbonella IV, DMD, MS, has come full circle.
The Connecticut native has returned to his home state and is now residing in Newtown after traveling out...
Shoreline Arts Alliance (SAA) recently announced the finalists and award winners for the 22nd Annual Tassy Walden Awards for New Voices in Children’s Literature...
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).