NUMC Has A New Associate Pastor
By Shannon Hicks
A casual conversation during a Christmas party has become a blessing for Newtown United Methodist Church. The R...
If God wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
 —Jay Leno
We always want the best man to win an election. Unfortunately, he never run...
Laurie A. Hadad
Research Analyst At Housatonic            Community College
Laurie A. (Hauck) Hadad, 39, beloved wife of David Hadad of Fish R...
Only the Developers Win
To the Editor:
Why is it that when the public objects to and speaks out against some imminently damaging project (insert here: cell towe...
At The Library––
Evening Book Group Will Discuss
Barack Obama Memoir
The evening book discussion group at the CH Booth Library will mee...
Kindness Appreciated
To the Editor:
I am writing to thank and acknowledge the extra special services provided by Avance Esthetiques in Sand Hill Plaza last mont...
Don’t Blame School Board For High Costs
To the Editor:
It is grossly unfair to blame the Board of Education for the escalating cost of educating th...
Students Invited
To Experience Colonial Life
In the last 250 years there have been many changes in the ways people make their livings and furnish their homes. ...
Fear not, The Bee has another chance to get a glimpse of the team on Friday evening at NHS, when they team up with the NHS cheerleaders at the Friday evening fo...
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).