Occupation: I recently retired after 35 years as a teacher/librarian, primarily in schools in Danbury and Ridgefield.
Family: My husband, Ross Carley, i...
On June 28, 1914, the Austro-Hungarian Empire’s Archduke Ferdinand was shot and killed by a Serbian nationalist. The event set off World War I.
Four years later...
October 6, 1989
The search on Block Island, Rhode Island, for a missing 35-year-old Newtown woman, Regina Brown, has been suspended. The search on Block Is...
October 6, 1989
The search on Block Island, Rhode Island, for a missing 35-year-old Newtown woman, Regina Brown, has been suspended. The search on Block Is...
I have been worrying my whiskers off over the news coming out of Liberia. I hope you join me in sending silent purrs and good thoughts toward our friends outsid...
“Think for yourself, and let others do the same,” exhorts the American Library Association poster for the 2014 Banned Books Week.
Even though the annual Banned ...
Mortimer William Berliner of Trumbull and Fort Lauderdale, Fla., died October 1. He was the beloved husband for 63 years of Janice Rosenfeld Berliner.
His sons ...
The Working Women’s Forum, an association of local professionals and entrepreneurs, will feature “Beautifying Your Space With Today’s Floral Trends,” with guest...
On June 28, 1914, the Austro-Hungarian Empire’s Archduke Ferdinand was shot and killed by a Serbian nationalist. The event set off World War I.
Four years later...
Adam R. Hicks, 37, of Meriden, the husband of Erica (Holbert) Hicks, died September 30. He was born July 25, 1977, in Danbury, and was the son of Robin Zigray o...
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).