Looking For Father Of The Year
DANBURY —Danbury Jaycees are looking to find this year’s Father of the Year. Has your dad done something ...
The Newtown Middle School softball team made it eight in a row last week with a 17-9 win over Memorial Middle School. Lisa Morgan whiffed nine batters in four i...
Area AARP To Meet
BETHEL — Bethel Area Chapter 2449, American Association of Retired Persons, will hold its year ending luncheon and installation of...
Looking For Father Of The Year
DANBURY —Danbury Jaycees are looking to find this year’s Father of the Year. Has your dad done something ...
Making A Difference
To the Editor:
I would like to acknowledge and thank all the parents and faculty of The Fraser-Woods School. This past year has been a treme...
By Steve Bigham
The suds are back in Sandy Hook.
After more than a 10-year absence, Newtown finally has a laundromat to call its own. PJ's laundromat at 110 C...
Lunch Menus - June 11 Through 15
Newtown Elementary
Monday, June 11
CHOOSE ONE:
Macaroni & Cheese
Italian Grinder
CHOOSE UP TO THREE:
Green Beans
Fr...
Police Station Renovations Under Way
By Andrew Gorosko
Although it’s not apparent from the street, the police station interior looks quite a bit dif...
This dull, mostly gray and damp Sunday afternoon doesn’t encourage any outdoor activity. The sun struggles through the clouds for brief moments and ...
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).