Ridgefield VNA Offering Well Child Clinics
RIDGEFIELD — The local VNA is currently taking appointments for a series of well child clinics to be hel...
Jaclyn Foran Woitkowski
and Michael F. Porco, Jr
Nancy and Raymond Woitkowski of Dalton, Mass., are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Jacly...
Newtown Support Groups
Friday, July 6Â Â Â Â Â Â
AA, Newtown United Methodist Church, 92 Church Hill Road, 8 pm, beginners meeting, open discussion.
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A Tick Control Measure
Worth Considering
To the Editor:
I wish to comment on the article by John Voket titled “DEEP To Support Tick-Borne Disease P...
Doggone Etiquette—
Day Trips
By Bardi McLennan
A Word to the Dog:
You dogs are of several minds about travel. Some of you love to go for a rid...
If you stopped by and it seemed a little quiet and we have seemed a little glum in The Bee office this week, it is because one of our office dogs, Starr, is cha...
Status Quo Budget
To the Editor:
It’s hard to understand why the Legislative Council is having such a difficult time in understanding what the Newto...
Officials Invite Taxpayer Questions, Extend Office Hours Ahead Of Fifth Referendum
By John Voket
It has been relatively quiet during the first couple of open of...
Senior services for Newtown seniors are available at the Multipurpose Building on Riverside Road in Sandy Hook. The Senior Center is under the auspices of the C...
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).