Newtown High School's boys' basketball team locked up a state playoff berth with a 71-34 triumph over host Masuk of Monroe on February 2. Newtown followed that ...
Newtown High School's gymnastics team went to the Gymnastics and Cheerleading Academy in Fairfield for a meet on February 2, and placed second as a team. Team r...
To the Editor:
As you may know, March 1 is our region's biggest charitable event of the year - Fairfield County's Giving Day. Last year, over 13,000 donors rais...
An opening reception took place at C.H. Booth Library on Sunday, February 4, for an exhibition of art featuring work by Newtown residents Roberta Shea, Stephani...
In a show of love and compassion that has come to epitomize our town and schools, hundreds of valentines are on their way to troops around the nation and overse...
Newtown Public Schools will have a two hour delay on Thursday, February 8, due to the weather.
The district made the announcement early Thursday morning.
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RIDGEFIELD - August Wilson's classic Fences is now in performance at Ridgefield Theater Barn.
Graced with exceptional talent under the adept direction of Kather...
In an effort to protect the public's health and reduce the spread of the influenza (flu) virus that has heavily affected Connecticut, the State Department of Pu...
The State of Connecticut proclaimed February 7 to 14, 2018, Social Emotional Learning Awareness Week, a Jesse Lewis Choose Love Movement initiative to celebrate...
To the Editor: A Plastic Ocean, and it haunted me.
I am writing as a new member of a Newtown environmental group. I see the changing world we live in and a year...
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).