To the Editor:
As we all know, our town’s Board of Finance (BOF) reduced the budget to be presented at the Annual Town Meeting on May 7. It did so by its last-minute decision to allow no increases in the Board of Selectmen (BOS) and Board of Education (BOE) budgets. The result is a 1 ...
The following letter was sent to Governor Lamont, and was reprinted here with the author's permission.
Dear Governor Lamont:
I write to express grave concern about a mandatory school consolidation bill passing in any form, including even as simply a directive for a study of the sub ...
To the Editor:
If you're breathing a sigh of relief that the budget as proposed by our town boards got through Tuesday night’s session of our Annual Town Meeting without being reduced by way of a successful floor motion–several of which were considered and discussed at length–please d ...
To the Editor:
I knew the present state of our Police Department’s building was bad, but taking our Department’s building tour earlier this week really gave me a much better sense of just how bad it is. The need for something a lot better is crystal clear.
For example, the only lar ...
To the Editor:
A couple of those folks who cost our town many thousands of dollars in wasted litigation expense in court and in dismissed claims before state election authorities are now complaining about rooms they claim are not currently planned for use due to present enrollment fig ...
To the Editor:
The subject of enrollment declines was featured in the local press again recently, including in an article reporting on current class sizes. What is most interesting in that article is the current average class size information (rounding fractions to the nearest whole n ...
To the Editor:
I write on the subject of the Board of Finance’s budget recommendations to be forthcoming early this week. Let me first say how positive I found both town meetings this past week! The one on the Board of Education Budget Monday night had the Middlebrook Auditorium fille ...
To the Editor:
I’ve had an opportunity to review the 12 questions addressed to Wilton’s Board of Selectmen candidates by “Sensible Wilton” as published in GOOD Morning Wilton last Thursday, Oct. 22.
A number of those questions are straightforward and well-framed, but several of the ...
