The firm that is constructing a retail center at 73-75 Church Hill Road, near Exit 10 of Interstate 84, has received a modified wetlands/watercourses protection...
Town land use agency officials are “restarting the clock” on an application from a local plant nursery that seeks to rectify a range of wetlands violations that...
Riding trails on horseback is something many people can only experience vicariously if they do not leave their community.
In Newtown, however, thanks to the New...
Newtown Continuing Education has limited openings available in the following classes and activities.
Online Safety, Daytime Class — A one-class course on No...
Virtually all of the debris builder Chris Hottois amasses during a large-scale renovation project gets carted away in huge dumpsters.
But a relatively compact c...
NOTE (Monday, November 5, 2018): This story has been updated to reflect the correct collection times on November 10 and 11.
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Newtown Troop 770 Bo...
EverWonder Children’s Museum has received a $20,000 grant from The Jeniam Foundation, a family-based foundation committed to helping local communities.
The gene...
The Newtown Fund is asking for the community’s help to bring joy to families in need during the upcoming holiday season.
The Holiday Basket Program, sponsored b...
For every diving dig, timely block, or booming kill Newtown High School’s girls’ volleyball team came up with, Joel Barlow’s lineup had an answer — and then som...
The 33rd Annual Holiday Festival will be presented on Sunday, December 2, from 11 am to 4 pm, on and around Main Street.
The event is one of the area’s longest-...
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).