Festival Of Carols, December 12
SHERMAN — The Sherman Church Choir will perform a Christmas cantata titled “Festival of Carolsâ€&#x...
The Newtown Fund’s Holiday Basket Drive:
Help Wanted To Create Happy Holidays
By Kendra Bobowick
“The big day is December 18,â€&#x...
What do you imagine will be the hottest holiday gift of the season in ten years?
Timmy McCarthy: I think it will be some type of big electrical thing everyone w...
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Newtown’s First Turkey Trot
A Success
To the Editor:
On behalf of Mike Beaudry, Mike Hornby, and myself we’d like to say, wow, we were ...
If you see her running down the road, you should know that Newtown resident Amy Griffin is not running away from the holidays — she is running to ma...
The Skate Park Opens
To the Editor:
News has it the Newtown Skate Park is up and running, which has brought relief and joy to so many. It’s a jewel....
Hawks Fall To Masuk At New Stadium—
Resilient NHS Football Team Second In SWC
By Andy Hutchison
Newtown High School’s football team lost...
Finance Bd. Told Construction Deadlines Will Increase Project Costs
By John Voket
Citing substantial contractor-related delays in occupying the new high school ...
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).