Southern New England is experiencing worsening drought conditions, and officials are urging residents to voluntarily take steps to reduce their water consumption.
While the obscure and somewhat exotic specter of monkeypox is on the Newtown Health District's radar, the summer of 2022 harbors a number of other, higher priority concerns.
Over 200 people attended the 2022 Newtown Giving Circle Summer Breakfast, an annual fundraiser for Regional Hospice that returned to The Waterview in Monroe for the first time since 2019.
While the Newtown Health District is not planning to host any COVID-19 vaccination clinics for the youngest candidates who just became qualified to receive a protective jab, Director Donna Culbert is promoting clinics including one June 30 at Newtown High School.
Find out how a Kids In Crisis 'Teen Talk' program funded by Newtown Parent Connection is making a huge difference with students and administrators at two local schools.
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).