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  • A Stream’s New Home In The Open Air

    Kendra Bobowick • Features •
    Monday, September 16, 2013

    A stream restoration project at Dickinson Park, funded primarily through grants, included several phases of work ending with streamside plantings in recent days. Native shrubs and trees now line the banks of the waterway within the Elm Drive-Brushy Hill Road town park.

  • Son’s Book Shares Deacon’s WWII POW Experience

    Nancy K. Crevier • Features •
    Friday, September 13, 2013

    Kenneth Stroud is a mild man, with a ready smile and even at age 93, blue eyes that sparkle. His handshake is firm and while the years threaten to bend him in half, his stride is steady. A deacon in the Catholic Church for 36 years, the native Englishman does not have the demeanor of a man who harbors memories that would raise the eyebrows of the boldest soldier. But for three and a half years of his life the question for Mr Stroud was always, “What’s next?” Captured by the Japanese in 1942, just after the British forces in Singapore surrendered, the young Royal Air Force (RAF) Leading Aircraftsman would find himself shipped ultimately to the Indonesian island of Haruku, in the Banda Sea off of New Guinea.

  • Snapshot: Jason Horn

    Features •
    Friday, September 13, 2013

    A weekly profile of a local resident.

  • The Way We Were

    Features •
    Friday, September 13, 2013

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

  • The Top of the Mountain

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    Friday, September 13, 2013

    Newtown, from a cat's point of view.

  • Kevin's Community Center Fundraiser Draws Large Crowd

    Kendra Bobowick • Features •
    Thursday, September 12, 2013

    Trays of catered foods, tables draped with linen and filled with wine, live music, and a silent auction greeted guests to the sixth annual Mozart, Merlot & Mums to benefit Kevin’s Community Center (KCC). The center is a free medical clinic open to uninsured or underinsured patients. A l...

  • R2R Cyclists Take On The Minuteman Challenge (And Connecticut’s Hills)

    Shannon Hicks • Features •
    Wednesday, September 11, 2013

    Connecticut’s hills proved a good challenge for those riding in this year’s UnitedHealthcare Ride 2 Recovery (R2R) Minuteman Challenge, which reached Newtown on day three of its seven-day journey. A convoy of 150 bicyclers, their support teams and escorts arrived in Sandy Hook around 2:45 Tuesday afternoon, taking the bridge from Southbury’s River Road and turning left onto Glen Road. From there, riders traveled to Cherry Street, then picked up Riverside Road for a rest and water stop at Sandy Hook Volunteer Fire & Rescue’s main station.

  • Theater Review: ‘August: Osage County’ In Ridgefield Even Better Than Original In New York

    Julie Stern • Features •
    Wednesday, September 11, 2013

    If there is one piece of live theater you get to see all year, make it Ridgefield Theater Barn’s August: Osage County. When Tracy Letts’ dark tragic-comedy premiered on Broadway in 2008, it swept all the prizes, prizes, garnering the Pulitzer for that year, along with multiple Tony Awards, Drama Desk Awards, Outer Critics Circle Awards, and the NY Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play. One woman in the Theater Barn’s lobby the other night was heard to remark: “I saw the original show in New York … and this production’s better!”

  • LLS Light The Night Walks An Ongoing Mission For Local Woman

    Nancy Crevier • Features •
    Tuesday, September 10, 2013

    The first Light The Night for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) in Newtown took place at Newtown High School in the fall of 2009, organized by Sandy Hook Resident Ginny Chion with the help of Newtown High School Athletic Director Gregg Simon. While it was the first appearance in her hometown of the annual findraiser for LLS, 2009 marked the seventh year Ms Chion had been involved in organizing teams to walk to support the mission of LLS, to cure leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin’s disease, and myeloma and improve the quality of life for patients and their families. Four years later, Ms Chion continues working to bring awareness about blood cancers through Newtown Light The Night efforts.

  • Family Fun For All At Ice Cream Social

    Andy Hutchison • Features •
    Monday, September 9, 2013

    Families were out in full force to pile on the sweet toppings and participate in activities at the many booths set up behind Trinity Episcopal Church during an ice cream social hosted by Ben’s Lighthouse on August 31. Ferris Acres Creamery provided ice cream, a portion of which it donated, and the scoops were served by town officials, teachers, coaches, emergency responders, and clergy. There were smiles all around as children engaged in fun-filled therapeutic activities through a variety of vehicles, such as art, music, juggling, petting Pet Partners Therapy Dogs and, of course, eating ice cream.

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