Members of The Garden Club of Newtown recently descended upon The Victory Garden, where they continued preparing their rows for spring planting. The local club is also preparing for a spring plant sale.
Among the many exhibits at Newtown Earth Day Festival on April 27 will be several booths sponsored by Newtown Lions Club, including one focused on this year’s Lose The Litter effort.
The Newtown United Methodist Church Mission & Outreach Committee is inviting readers to their spring fundraising event, the Second Annual Afternoon Tea.
The Flagpole Photographers Camera Club invites the public and photographers of all skill levels to boost their skills at a hands-on workshop featuring the scenic and historic towns of Newtown and Sandy Hook.
Two nights before the Newtown Earth Day Festival returns to the front lawn of Newtown Middle School, organizers will again offer a special film screening at Edmond Town Hall.
Newtown Police Department and other law enforcement agencies nationwide will be partnering with the Drug Enforcement Administration this month for the 26th Drug Take Back Day.
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).