A Forgotten Part Of Newtown?
(The following letter to First Selectman Herb Rosenthal has been received for publication)
Mr Rosenthal,
I am writing in res...
BOSTON, Massachusetts — One of the country’s largest AKC dog shows is back at the Bayside for four days of tail-wagging fun.
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 ’99 Saw An Increase In Road Improvements
By Steve Bigham
Public Works Director Fred Hurley met with the Board of Selectmen Monday night to report ...
By Shannon Hicks
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By Kim J. Harmon
“We’re excited.”
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Boys’ 5th Grade Travel
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By Steve Bigham
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Brenda L. Weston
Brenda L. Weston, 31, of Redding, died on December 3. She was the wife of Stanley L. Weston.
She was the niece of Frances Gorham of Newtown...
The Lions’ top five returning eighth graders are (from left) Tori Filler, Erica Carino, Kelley Haines, Julie Iwanicki and Kaitlyn Murphy.
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Manuel Moniz
Manuel Moniz, 87, of 74 Queen Street, Newtown, died on December 4 at his home. He was the husband of Lena (Frias) Moniz.
Born in Azores, Portugal...
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).