From Concrete Slab To Oral Surgery, Local Dentist Builds A Practice
By Kaaren Valenta
When David Nowacki moved to Newtown in 1985 during his senior year of high...
Railroad Bridge
Completed On Schedule
By Dottie Evans
Newtown residents and town officials are heaving a collective sigh of relief because the beaten and batter...
Tier One, LLC––
A New Company Arises In The Wake Of A Departing One
By Kaaren Valenta
Joe Young had a hard time sleeping when â€&#x...
Stone Wall Workshop For National Public Lands Day
WILTON AND RIDGEFIELD — On Saturday, September 20, the National Park Service and Weir Preserve Ste...
Hospital Offers Pastoral Programs
BRIDGEPORT — Bridgeport Hospital’s Pastoral Care Department will offer a clinical pastoral education p...
Historical Society Program
On The Stevenson Dam
On September 8, at 7:30 pm, in the Meeting Room of the Booth Library, 25 Main Street (Route 25) in Newtown Cente...
Horses
On
Parade
The annual Labor Day Parade – themed Newtown
’s Faith in the Future: A Celebration of Our Youth – featur...
What We Eat
To the Editor:
Our children deserve better. This is such an insidious problem because Nabisco and General Foods and Kraft are practically considered...
Newtown Hikers Take Note:
8 am Start Time This Weekend
 The Newtown Hikers Club 2003 fall season’s opening hike is planned for Saturday, September ...
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).