Antiques Shows______
Saturdays (through mid-Dec): 38th Season Woodbury’s Famous Antiques & Flea Market, 787 Main St South (Rte 6, near Rte 64),...
Art Show At Danbury Hospital
DANBURY — The “Joy of Survival — Expressions of the Cancer Journey Through Art” sho...
Relay For Life Bank Night June 6
The June 6 meeting for Relay For Life will be held at Newtown Savings Bank at 7 pm. All team captains are asked to attend. Anyo...
Democrats To Hear Congressional Candidate
Waterbury Board of Aldermen President J. Paul Vance, Jr, will address the Newtown Democrats at their monthly meeting n...
TnT: A Small Company Excels In Telecom Expense Management
By Kaaren Valenta
Michael Bodetti is looking for a few good men and women.
A Newtown resident for the ...
Borough Lane
Alfred and Zhaneta Musaka have purchased a home at 20 Borough Lane from George and Alice Litvak.
The property was listed by Connie Strait of Coldw...
Mastering The Learning Process
The achievements of Newtown’s young people spill out in our education and sports pages week after week, and sometimes...
Collections Of Works By Robinson, Inspired By Monet, Opens This Weekend At Wadsworth Atheneum
HARTFORD — “In Monet’s Light: ...
The Mark Twain Store will be open all evening and the historic Twain House will be open for tours with paid admission. Concerts begin at 6 pm.
The 2005 concerts...
TINA: Sweet gray/white female spayed cat, about two years old, very friendly and affectionate.
SMOKEE: Beautiful charcoal gray female spayed cat, about ...
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).