The Society of Creative Arts of Newtown (SCAN) will have Anda Styler painting in acrylic at its next program, scheduled for Wednesday, August 12, at 7:30 pm. He...
The next installment of the Sunday Cinema Series sponsored by Newtown Cultural Arts Commission will actually be a midweek offering. Some Like It Hot is set for ...
A Woodstock Hilltoppers’ player drove a ball deep to left field, over the head of outfielder Bryan Donnelly. A sure extra base hit in today’s game — but this wa...
BRIDGEPORT — This summer marked the 20th anniversary of Gathering of the Vibes music festival, and it fell on the weekend of what would have been Grateful Dead ...
David Lydem has stepped down as the unofficial Keeper of the Flagpole. Or, as the retired Newtown Police lieutenant likes to say, “a facilitator of the flagpole...
RIDGEFIELD — In her official bio, penned by Hilton Als, the two-time Grammy winner, one of VH1’s 100 Greatest Women in Rock & Roll, and so-called “Queen of Cool...
The 10th Annual Newtown Road Race 5K and Newtown Prevention Council Kids Run to benefit Newtown Youth & Family Services will be held on Saturday, September 5....
To the Editor:
Seriously, another flagpole traffic study?
When I read The Bee this weekend I was compelled to write about this ridiculous waste of money and I q...
What was initially going to be a $500 check presentation to the Newtown Volunteer Ambulance Corps ended up doubling to $1,000 after Newtown Verizon Wireless sto...
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).