The 2016 Interfaith Thanksgiving Gathering of Prayer and Song being presented by Newtown Interfaith Clergy Association will follow the tradition of being offere...
Newtown High School's football team, sparked by a six-touchdown first half that included Ben Mason's state record tying fifth career interception return for a t...
If you have not experienced a Barn Hunt event, I highly recommend you grab your dog and head on over to Cassio Pet Resort and Training Center this weekend to ha...
Luther Henry Pottbecker, 92, of Melbourne, Fla., and a resident for many years of the Candlewood Lake Club, New Milford, died peacefully on November 3, surround...
After helping raise $25,000 to upgrade the Edmond Town Hall Theatre with contemporary lighting and sound equipment, Newtown resident Hayden Bates is just days a...
Financial advisor and certified college planning specialist Sean Flynn will lead a workshop on College Planning and Financial Aid on Wednesday, November 9, star...
To the Editor:
Thankfully, election day is almost here and this nightmare of a Presidential election will be over.
However, on a local level we also have an ele...
To the Editor:
During the month of October, students at Head O' Meadow were engaged in activities as a Ben's Bells Kind Campus related to kindness, caring, and ...
The next presentation of The Town & Country Garden Club of Newtown will be on "Underutilized and Exceptional Native Trees and Shrubs."
The emphasis of the progr...
VFW Post 308 will host its annual Veterans Day ceremony, Friday, November 11, at 11 am. Post 308 is on Freedom Defenders Way (formerly 18 Tinkerfield Road), off...
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).