Reading Every Day
To the Editor:
Congratulations to all who participated in the C.H. Booth Library’s summer reading program, Make a Splash, Read! Th...
Police List Roadblocks And Parking Bans For Parade
Police report that in connection with the Labor Day Parade scheduled for Monday, September 6, there will be ...
West Street, Newtown
Jennifer and Paul Mazzara sold a home at 26 West Street to John Vichiola.
Bob and Richelle Ward of Prudential Connecticut Realty were ...
Political Calculus Doesn’t Add Up
To the Editor:
First, the very careful selection of the Fairfield Hills Authority by percentages of political affi...
Concert Review—
From Obscure Covers To Greatest Hits,
Dukes Of September Offered All Of It At The Ives
By John Voket
DANBURY — Perhaps ...
HamFest Returning
The Candlewood Amateur Radio Association will present its 2010 HamFest, an ARRL sanctioned event, on Sunday, September 12, from 8:30 am until ...
Decisions Due On Future Of Eichler’s Cove
By John Voket
As many of the boaters who dock their watercraft at the town’s Eichlerâ€&#x...
Architecture That Fits In
To the Editor:
I would like to clarify some misinformation in the latest Letters to The Bee. The architectural services for the expans...
Well, isn’t this just the cat’s meow? Last week’s Top of the Mountain column found itself the featured item in the August 31...
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).