State Regulators Approve
Aquarion Water Supply For Greenridge
By Andrew Gorosko
State regulators have given final approval to the Aquarion Water Companyâ€...
NHS To Host Veterans Day Event For Vets
Newtown High School is once again hosting a Veterans Day Assembly, on Friday, November 11, at 1 pm in the high school au...
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Elizabeth S. Alberico
Beloved Wife, Sister,
And Mother
Elizabeth S. Alberico, 69, beloved wife of Cosmo Alberico and a seven-year resident of Walnut ...
Girls’ Soccer Team Wins OT Thriller To Kick Off Tourney Play; Gets Chance To Win Share Of Conference Title Sunday
By Andy Hutchison
After 80-plus ...
Travel Through Newtown
Lands One Bicyclist At NMS
By Eliza Hallabeck
While camped out on the grounds of the Newtown Country Club, Groton resident Joe Kennedy w...
For police reports
Commercial Burglary
At about 2:03 am on November 3, police responded to a burglar alarm at Cave Comics at 57 Church Hill Road.
Police sa...
Letters Of Endorsement
To the Editor:
Newtown is fortunate to have scores of individuals who emphasize the importance of having a government that listens to its...
Brooke Hadgraft
Hadgraft is a defender on Newtown High School’s junior varsity field hockey team.
Favorite part about playing: “Gett...
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).