Criminal Mischief—
Police Probe Halloween Vandalism
Across Town
By Andrew Gorosko
Police are seeking help from the public in solving a variety of ...
Local Chiropractor Sees Increased Spending, Reliance On Alternative Medicine
By John Voket
Americans spend more than ten percent of their out-of-pocket health c...
DeRoo Wins League Honors Following Championship Effort
HAMILTON, N.Y.—Colgate University sophomore Elise DeRoo, of Newtown, was named the Patriot Le...
Join The Uphill Battle
To the Editor:
I would like to congratulate every candidate elected to office on Election Day. Kudos to Newtown Republicans who came out ...
Blank Walls At Municipal Center Call Out For Local Art
By Kendra Bobowick
Where is the artwork?
As town personnel adjust to their new space at the Newtown Munic...
NMS Scarecrow Sculpture Contest
Winners Announced
By Eliza Hallabeck
Newtown’s sweet tooth showed this week when the Newtown Middle School Scarecro...
Raffia Bouquets For Fall
Katie Stevenson, artist and program leader, will demonstrate creating blooms from natural cornhusks and raffia on Thursday, November 12...
Police Offer Advice On Burglary Prevention
By Andrew Gorosko
In view of a recent increase in the burglary rate in area towns, police are offering residents some...
Board Reappoints Fire Marshal
And Deputies
At its October 26 annual meeting, the Board of Fire Commissioners reappointed Bill Halstead to another one-year ter...
Savage Studio Show & Sale
DANBURY — Phyllis Savage is presenting a pre-holiday show and sale of her ceramics at her studio and gallery on Fridays, S...
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).