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  • Resident’s Personal Journey Through Art To Benefit SHOP

    Kendra Bobowick • Features •
    Saturday, May 25, 2013 at 11:12 am

    Dashed onto a canvas in oils is an image of Sabrina Style’s front window, dresses displayed in the pane glass of the Washington Avenue dress shop and boutique. Again with dabs of vibrant oil colors, Main Street and other Newtown and Sandy Hook scenes have come to life thanks to artist and Newtown resident Jim Chillington. Four of the painter’s pieces will be sold or auctioned off during a June 15 Sandy Hook Organization for Prosperity (SHOP) fundraiser and wine tasting event to benefit local businesses. The second annual SHOP fundraiser will benefit Newtown Scholarship Association and FAITH Food Pantry, as well as provide SHOP with future event funding.

  • New Christmas Tree Is Ready For The Holidays In Sandy Hook Center

    Shannon Hicks • Features •
    Saturday, May 25, 2013

    Sandy Hook Center has a new Christmas tree.Crews began working before 8 am on a rainy and chilly Friday, putting final touches on the ground and then readying a 32-foot Norway Spruce to be moved out of a truck-mounted tree spade, and then into a hole that had been readied for it. By 11 am May 24, the tree was in the ground, with workers putting the final shovels of dirt around its base...

  • The Way We Were

    Features •
    Friday, May 24, 2013

    A look back at Newtown, 25, 50, 75, and 100 years ago.

  • Snapshot: Debbie Sullivan

    Features •
    Friday, May 24, 2013

    A weekly profile of a local resident.

  • The Top of the Mountain

    Features •
    Friday, May 24, 2013

    Newtown, from a cat's point of view.

  • Great Pootatuck Duck Race Chair: The Race Will Go On, Rain Or Shine

    Shannon Hicks • Features •
    Friday, May 24, 2013

    It’s a good thing ducks like water. The Great Pootatuck Duck Race may set a record tomorrow. If the rain continues the way it is being predicted, the Pootatuck River in Sandy Hook Center will be moving pretty quickly on Saturday, May 25. Granted, it will be thousands of rubber ducks going for a swim at 2:30 tomorrow afternoon, but they may make the swim from the Church Hill Road bridge to the Dayton Street bridge in record time. Duck Race Chairman Bob Schmidt says the ducks are going for that race, rain or shine.

  • Muddy Angels Make A Special Stop In Newtown

    Kendra Bobowick • Features •
    Thursday, May 23, 2013

    Dana Sellner of Minnesota stood on the curb near Edmond Town Hall Wednesday afternoon, repeating: “The turn is here” to the many bicyclists coming off Main Street following their trip from Waterbury.Remarking on the ride that morning she said, “They have climbed a lot of hills in the past couple of days.” Wednesday afternoon saw more than 80 of the roughly 140 registrants taking part in all or some of the Muddy Angels National EMS Memorial Bike Ride (NEMSMBR) from Maine to Pennsylvania (see MuddyAngels.com for more information).The long-distance cycling event honors EMTs and paramedics who have become sick or injured while performing...

  • Lake-To-Lake Charity Bicycle Ride & Poker Run To Benefit Disabled Ski Group

    Kendra Bobowick • Sports •
    Thursday, May 23, 2013

    The Leaps of Faith Disabled Skiers will take to the land for an inaugural Lake-to-Lake Charity Bicycle Ride and Poker Run on Sunday, May 26, rain or shine. “We have been thinking of different ways to raise funds,” said Leaps of Faith President ...

  • One Good Turn Deserves Another

    Nancy K. Crevier • Features •
    Thursday, May 23, 2013

    Newtown resident Kim Calbo remembers how nice it was, after 12/14, to walk into a local restaurant or coffee shop and discover that a complete stranger — sometimes from across the country — was picking up the tab that day for anyone who ordered food or drinks.

  • Newtown Residents Find Their Hobby Is More Than Rocket Science — It’s A Blast!

    James Dietter • Features •
    Thursday, May 23, 2013

    The usually placid Gill Corn Farm in Hurley, N.Y., an expansive cornfield in the southern foothills of the Catskill Mountains, was alive with the sights and sounds of rocket engines during Connecticut Rocket Association’s (CTRA) bimonthly rocket launch on Saturday, May 4. Powerful rockets, some exceeding eight feet in length, ripped off the launching pads with a roar and reached heights of up to 6,000 feet before floating safely back down to earth with the aid of parachutes. Approximately 30 spectators, many of them members of CTRA, and among them a few residents of Newtown, watched scores of adrenaline-producing launches from a dirt road that cut through the field.

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