Doing their bit for their class

Doing their bit for their class
Patrick L. Sullivan

Logan Gallagher, left and Gavin Mechare were on eighth grade fundraiser duty, selling baked goods at the David M. Hunt Library Saturday morning, Dec. 7. A sort of granola and jelly concoction was the popular favorite.

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Turning Back the Pages - October 9, 2025

125 years ago — October 1900

An electric car, one of the three running together and returning from the fair grounds, was derailed by the breaking of an axle on Wooster Street, Danbury, Sunday evening. The passengers became frightened and jumped from the car and several were cut and bruised but none seriously hurt.

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Buying teacher union support doesn’t make schools better

Connecticut is a case study of the fallacy that spending on public schools correlates with student learning. The state has been increasing spending in the name of education since the state Supreme Court’s 1977 decision in the school financing case of Horton v. Meskill, which prompted state government to increase financial grants to municipal schools, and again with passage of the Education Enhancement Act of 1986, which subsidized municipal governments for raising teacher salaries.

Ever since then student proficiency has declined or been stagnant. Indeed, education spending in Connecticut has correlated only with mediocrity and the support given to the majority political party by the teacher unions, the most influential special interest in the state. The political correlation, not the educational correlation, is what keeps education spending going up. For no one in authority in Connecticut cares much about educational results.

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Sharon Audubon bird seed sale returns this fall

SHARON — The Sharon Audubon Center, located at 325 Cornwall Bridge Road is once again offering Lizzie Mae’s brand bird seed to customers at a special discounted price through a fall pre-order bird seed sale in order to stock up for feeding the birds over the winter.

Seed varieties include a special custom Northwest Corner Blend, black oil sunflower, sunflower chips, finch favorite, woodpecker favorite, cardinal favorite, chickadee and nuthatch favorite, shell-free medley, in-shell peanuts, and various types of suet cakes. Descriptions of each variety can be found on the online order form.

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Salisbury School 
chaplain joins 
St. Johns Church

Johan Johnson is the new minister at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Salisbury.

Patrick L. Sullivan

SALISBURY — Rev. Johan Johnson is the new priest at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Salisbury.

He is also the chaplain at Salisbury School.

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