A butterfly fluttered over what was a soon-to-be colorful garden space along the perimeter of the Fun Space II Playground at Dickinson Memorial Park, on June 2....
To the Editor:
I am writing in response to the news that a beloved, longtime teacher in Newtown will be retiring at the end of the 2015-2016 school year. Jim Ro...
On Wednesday, June 22, the C.H. Booth Library will offer a special program on all things related to Facebook.chboothlibrary.org, or call the Reference desk at 2...
On Sunday, June 12, at 4 pm, in the Alexandria Room at Edmond Town Hall, local voice teacher Maggi Heilweil will present her students in a program of varied voc...
To the Editor:
I would like to thank the Newtown residents who participated in the Democratic Caucus for the 106th State Representative District. It was excitin...
On Tuesday, June 14, the next C.H. Booth Library Brown Bag Business Hour will present "Know Before You Build: The Basics of Business Construction Projects," wit...
To the Editor:
Families United in Newtown (FUN), a community recreational program for families in our area with special needs children, sponsored their 6th annu...
To the Editor:The Newtown Bee last week, I noted several SWC Championships. Boys' lacrosse, boys' golf, girls' golf, and softball. This does not happen by accid...
James Kane Larin, 78, of New Milford died peacefully on June 6. Born in Great Falls, Mont., he was the son of the late Kathleen (Kane) and David Patrick...
Elizabeth (McGarry) Cinq-Mars, 53, of Danbury, wife of Mark R. Cinq-Mars, died June 6 at Danbury Hospital. She was born in Danbury, April 10, 1963, and was the ...
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).