Jackie (Jack) Tanner, 74, beloved husband, father, papa, brother, uncle, friend, and community leader, passed away on April 20, surrounded by his family.
He was...
In short: the town budget passed and the education budget failed during the April 23 referendum.
The Registrar of Voters reports 15.1% of Newtown’s registered v...
Family: My wife Kath; our son Andrew, who is now 22, and daughter Caroline, 19. He graduated from the University of New Hampshire in May and is now living i...
Members of The Garden Club of Newtown (GCN) recently descended upon The Victory Garden, where they continued preparing their rows for spring planting.
More than...
Poetry was in the air at the Booth Library “Poetry Walk” reception celebrated April 7. Approximately 75 people gathered in the library’s meeting room for the Su...
At the midway point of today’s referendum, 998 of Newtown’s 19,148 registered voters had visited Newtown Middle School to cast their four-question ballot. That ...
Susan “Sue” Boucher Medve, of Bridgeport, passed away on April 9, 2024, in Portland, Maine, at the age of 84.
She was born on December 13, 1939.
Sue was the bel...
George James Miller, 92, of Newtown, passed away peacefully on April 17, 2024, at home.
George was born on August 4, 1931, to George Miller and Margaret Jordan....
Residents donated pre-bagged groceries to help fight hunger for the Newtown Lions Second Annual Stuff-A-Truck Food Drive held on Saturday, April 6. The event wa...
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).