Heartfelt Thanks
To the Editor:
Our family would like to thank the Newtown Police Department for their amazing tribute to our father, James Comerford. He was a...
‘The Newtowner’:
A Literary Reflection Of Our Town
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By Nancy K. Crevier
Doodlers and dreamers, painters, playwrights, poets, and a...
Thunder Rumbles Past Huskies For Title
The Thunder defeated the Huskies 47-40 to win the Newtown Youth Basketball sixth-grade championship on March 27.
The cham...
The Power
Of One
SOUTHBURY — At its Holocaust remembrance program on Sunday, April 11, at 4 pm, The Federation, Jewish Communities of Western CT In...
Volunteers Hope Small Squares Make A Big Difference To Cancer Survivors
By Shannon Hicks
When Newtown’s Annual Relay For Life celebration returns fo...
With $2.5 Million Cut Intact—
Council Education Panel OKs Budget
By Eliza Hallabeck
In a 3-1 vote, the Legislative Council’s Education S...
NMS Tech Ed Students Launch Hot Air Balloons
Newtown Middle School technology education students have been launching self-constructed hot air balloon models fro...
Field Notes—
The Blue Hour
By Curtiss Clark
The rise and fall of our planet’s tilting waltz around the sun moved the angle of our inclin...
Newtown High Athletes Recognized For Efforts Off Of Playing Surfaces
By Andy Hutchison
Four of Newtown High School’s senior athletes who are standou...
Open House Scheduled For Chase Collegiate School
The Chase Collegiate School, an independent day school for prekindergarten through grade 12 in Waterbury, will ...
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).
Newtown schools have degraded over the 3+ decades I've lived here as the concentrated social experiment curricula driven by the state and small but loud groups. Yet we continue to dig into our pockets while we witness the downward spiral.