Colleen Gantnier and Westley Thompson
Mr and Mrs Kevin Gantnier, Sr, of Newtown announce the engagement of their daughter Colleen Gantnier to Westley Thomp...
Weekend Retreat Being
Planned At Wisdom House
LITCHFIELD — A weekend retreat on Centering Prayer will take place at Wisdom House Retreat and Confer...
Rate Hike Jan. 8—
Postal Service Customers Put In Their Two-Cents Worth
By Nancy K. Crevier
Area residents are preparing for the January 8 US Postal...
Rohleder-Carlson Family Buys A Seat At Edmond Town Hall Theatre
Generations of people have been entertained by plays, minstrels, dance productions, concerts, gr...
Now On View
Artist Beverly Branch will be exhibiting her paintings at C.H. Booth Library beginning Saturday, January 7, and running through Tuesday, Januar...
Antique Sharpening Wheel Stolen
Police report that sometime between December 10 and 17, someone stole a stone antique sharpening wheel from the yard at 46 Eden ...
Student Exchange Program
World Heritage Student Exchange Program, a public benefit organization, is seeking local host families for high school boys and girls f...
They clearly didn't get the message ! CUT THE BUDGET by 20% , not raise it ! Newtown spends $2,500,000.00 every week now ! It will be $2.6m if you approve it ! Who are these people not paying attention to the cost of living? Throwing money at the school administration will not make your kids any smarter ! We are at $22K per kid per year, that is insane ! CUT THE BUDGET ! Go show up and VOTE, because 1200 people who voted yes will show up again, and it's the 1200 people who decide your cost of living for years to come. 51% voters turnout should be mandated to approve the budget, not pathetic 15% of voters. Stop these nonsensical referendums and send everyone a card in the mail so we have a true outcome what people actually want.
All due respect, the headline to this article is misleading. The budget presented was a proposed budget that did not pass public referendum. There are no cuts to anything, rather a reduction in the Board of Education original asking dollars. As matter of fact, the current recommendation from the LC is an increase of 2.3M more than the previous budget from 2023/24.
Some background on the Bus comment Mr Knapp made on not following policy. From ther Bee may 2023.
Following a Request for Proposal (RFP), the school board learned at its March 15 meeting that only one bid came back for the school district’s transportation contract. The current contract with All-Star Transportation, which oversees the majority of bus routes for the district, is set to end at the end of this school year.
At the May 3 meeting, district Director of Business & Finance Tanja Vadas said — reacting to Public Participation speaker Ryan Knapp who, among other things concerning the transportation contract, questioned the school district’s RFP process — she stands by the district’s RFP process “but other companies just didn’t bid.”