Teddy Bears At Burnham Library
BRIDGEWATER — Old teddy bears from Dee Domroe’s personal collection are being exhibited during December a...
Newtown High School Announces Honor Roll
The following students have achieved high honors and honors for this past marking period at Newtown High School.
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By Kim J. Harmon
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ithout a doubt, the Nighthawks had a lot of individual success during the 1999-2000 season – two South-West Conference championsh...
‘Messiah’ By Mendelssohn Choir
For The Holidays
FAIRFIELD — The Mendelssohn Choir of Connecticut (MCC) will ring in the holi...
Internet For The Beginner
BETHEL — A small class for anyone interested in an introduction to the Internet will be presented on Saturday, December 16...
Rose L. Schettino
Rose (Ligouri) Schettino, 85, a lifelong resident of Bridgeport, died December 2 in the 3030 Park Health Center, Fairfield. She was the belove...
Script Talk!
STRATFORD — Stratford Library’s monthly drama and film discussion series, called “Script Talk!,” wi...
Free Blood Pressure Screening
The Ashlar of Newtown Nursing Department will sponsor a free blood pressure screening on Wednesday, December 27, from 10 am to noo...
HOM Fourth Graders Are Getting Some Southern Exposure This Year
By Tanjua Damon
Fourth grade students in Mr Royal’s class at Head O’ Mea...
Traditional ‘Messiah’ Returning
DANBURY — Danbury Music Centre will present its annual performance of Messiah, an oratorio ...
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).
Multi-Referendum Year?