Thomas M. Burns, 53, of Windsor died at his home July 5, with his loving family by his side. He was a son of Jean Mayernik Burns of Shelton and the late Daniel ...
Devoted husband, father, grandfather, friend, and pastor, Richard Dachenhausen, 68, died July 4. He was born January 29, 1947, in Danbury, and was a son of the ...
Members of FUN (Families United in Newtown) gathered at Dickinson Memorial Park recently for the group’s final meeting of the 2014-15 school year.
The event was...
To the Editor:
I want to publicly thank Bryan Roth with the Edward Jones agency for the $50 gift certificate to the Barnwood Grill restaurant that I won at the ...
Since February 2013, residents have become familiar with Hearts of Hope, a program that invites people of all ages to paint palm-sized ceramic hearts with simpl...
To the Editor:
I would like to publicly thank Tim Haas at the Haas Insurance Agency on Church Hill Road in Sandy Hook for the very generous prize of an amazing ...
In mid-April LRM Construction crews began digging out a ten-foot-wide path at Fairfield Hills where a new paved walkway would go. Within weeks, residents eager ...
Daniel “Dan” Robert Bandura, 70, of Sandy Hook died July 6. He was born in Luzerne, Penn., May 25, 1945.
He received a BS in mechanical engineering from New Je...
The Newtown Labor Day Parade Committee invites the community to “Celebrate the Fine Arts of Newtown,” honoring the Society of Creative Arts of Newtown with Gran...
By Nancy K. Crevier
When Fred Ferris puts an olive in his mouth and likes it, he will know if it is myth or fact that kidney recipients sometimes take on the li...
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).