WASHINGTON, DC - Summer has not found Newtown's federal delegation - US Senators Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy and Congresswoman Elizabeth Esty - taking a...
To the Editor:The Bee [August 4, "Jacob And Chaudhary Qualify For Primary, Clarify Positions"]:https://www.cga.ct.gov/2017/juddata/chr/2017JUD00315-R001000-CHR....
Doris L. Bulmer, 93, of The Villages, Fla., died August 7. She was born in Bridgeport, daughter of Frank and Freida Armbruster. She was formerly a longtime resi...
Blue Knights Drum and Bugle Corps visited Newtown High School's Blue & Gold Stadium on Friday, August 4, for a rehearsal day that included a series of practice ...
BETHEL - From the effervescence that permeated even the grayest of early scenes in the recent production of Willy Wonka , which opens Friday, Au...
The dispatchers at the Newtown Emergency Communications Center report the following fire calls and the responders:
Thursday, August 3: 6:06 pm, alarm, 12 Ne...
After making their way through the New England Regional tournament, the One Eyed Cats have made their way to Lawrenceburg, Tenn., for the start of the Babe Ruth...
Police report that on the morning of August 9, they arrested Mark Manley, 47, of 265 South Main Street, charging him with second-degree burglary and sixth degre...
Despite national efforts to thwart the forward movement of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, Connecticut continues to set goals for reducing carbon emissions a...
The 56th Labor Day Parade will step off from Main Street at Currituck Road at 10 am, Monday, September 4.
In the 3½ weeks leading up to that morning, the parade...
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).