UPDATE (Monday, February 6, 2017) This story has been updated to reflect the correct name of the person arrested.
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Hawley Elementary School second grade students learned about matter during a science lesson on Friday, January 20, provided by High Touch High Tech of Connectic...
A parcel containing a pavilion, boat launch, and small beach in Sandy Hook, which was acquired by the town in 2009, may be returned to the hands of the Riversid...
Newtown High School's girls' and boys' basketball teams defeated Masuk of Monroe on February 3.The Bee.
The girls went on the road and picked up a 37-20 victory...
Housatonic Valley Waldorf School 2011 graduate Quinn Whelehan returned to his former school on Tuesday, January 17, to share a presentation about what he has le...
Motorists are becoming accustomed to a new set of traffic signals, which are now operating at the four-way intersection of Church Hill Road, The Boulevard, and ...
UPDATE (Monday, February 6, 2017) This story has been updated to include information about Planned Parenthood, which will receive album sales proce...
Distance runners, sprinters, hurdlers, jumpers, and throwers showed their stuff at the South-West Conference track and field championships, at New Haven's Floyd...
Hygge (hue-geh) is a word that has made its way into the lexicon of people far away from Denmark, the homeland of this borrowed term. The Scandinavian concept o...
UPDATE (Monday, February 13, 2017): Due to the snow on Sunday, February 12, this event has been postponed to Sunday, February 26.
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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).