Deacon Kenneth Edward Stroud, 95, of Southbury, and previously of Newtown, died peacefully on June 3 at his home in Heritage Crest, surrounded by his loving fam...
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The Board of Trustees of the Heritage Preservation Trust of Newtown, Inc, which ...
The Newtown Centre of Classical Ballet & Voice will present Coppelia & The Toy Shop, a Comedic Ballet on Sunday, June 12, at noon and 3 pm, at Edmond Town Hall,...
The Beautiful Baby Contest is a friendly competition that displays children's photos (newborn to 4 years of age) and collects votes to raise funds for handicapp...
Fruit trees could cast their shadows across a newer stretch of trail at Fairfield Hills as soon as early July.community design studio
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A brief but intense late spring storm bearing thunder, lightning, winds, and torrential rain, which passed through the area on the evening of Sunday, June 5, ca...
Newtown Historical Society's 20th Annual House and Garden Tour will feature five unique private properties in Newtown and Sandy Hook, as well as The Dooryard Ga...
In accordance with state regulations, which address the retention and disposal of student health records, the Newtown High School nurses office will be eliminat...
State Open track and field championships took place at New Britain's Willow Brook Park on June 6, and Newtown High School's squads had some standout performance...
Several Connecticut state park beaches have been closed by the CT Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) for Tuesday, June 7, due to high bact...
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).