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  • CT Trails Day Offer For Newtown Bicyclists

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    Saturday, May 18, 2013 at 11:51 am

    The Farmington Valley Trails Council will hold its 16th annual Trails-in-Motion bicycle tour event on Saturday, June 1, in conjunction with National Trails Day. The event helps to promote public awareness of the rails-to-trails initiative in the Farmington Valley Valley, attracting new and existing fans of the multi-use trail system. Newtown residents are invited to participate free of charge this year.

  • Tennis Teams Advance To Championships

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    Friday, May 17, 2013

    Newtown High School’s girls’ and boys’ tennis teams moved on to compete in the South-West Conference championships with semifinal-round victories — the top-seeded girls over No. 4 Weston on May 15 and the second-seeded boys over No. 3 Joel Barlow of Reddin...

  • Softball Team Gets Back On Winning Track, Falls In Playoff Preview

    Andy Hutchison • Sports •
    Thursday, May 16, 2013

    BETHEL — Newtown High School’s softball team has found its offensive groove after consecutive setbacks at the hands of two of the South-West Conference’s top teams interrupted the Nighthawk’s winning ways. The Nighthawks outscored v...

  • Hawks Shake Off Close Setbacks With Thrilling One-Goal Win

    Andy Hutchison • Sports •
    Thursday, May 16, 2013

    After being on the short end of a trio of hard-fought, one-goal games, Newtown High School’s girls’ lacrosse team finally got to celebrate the outcome of a nail-biting contest. The Nighthawks edged host Simsbury 11-10 on May 11, only two days after a 17-16 setback to ...

  • High School Track Teams Earn Wins

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    Thursday, May 16, 2013

    Newtown High School’s girls’ and boys’ track and field teams competed in meets at Blue & Gold Stadium this week — the girls on May 14 and the boys the day before. Team scores and Newtown results from the meets are as follows: &n...

  • Nighthawk Laxmen Continue Strong Play As Playoffs Approach

    Andy Hutchison • Sports •
    Thursday, May 16, 2013

    A common saying in sports — it’s not how you start, but how you finish that matters most — pertains to the Newtown High School boys’ lacrosse team which, after a 3-5 beginning to the campaign, won six of seven games heading into the season-finale against X...

  • Annual Atkinson Golf Tourney June 10

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    Thursday, May 16, 2013

    The Third Annual Glenn R Benny Atkinson Memorial Golf Tournament will be held on Monday, June 10 at The Golf Club at Oxford Greens in Oxford. Tournament fee is $175 per golfer and includes a round of golf, access to the driving range, lunch, and awards din...

  • Tennis Teams Head Into SWC Tourney Play On High Notes

    Andy Hutchison • Sports •
    Thursday, May 16, 2013

    Newtown High School’s girls’ and boys’ tennis teams cruised into South-West Conference tourney action riding waves of momentum. The girls, in fact, went unbeaten in SWC play after blanking Pomperaug of Southbury and Lauralton Hall of Milford each by 7-0 scores, ...

  • Banno Makes MLL Debut

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    Thursday, May 9, 2013

    Former Newtown Youth Lacrosse player Joe Banno made Major League Lacrosse (MLL) debut on April 27 in a game that was aired on ESPN3. Banno, a goaltender who went on to play at Notre Dame-Fairfield and Haverford College in Haverford, Pa. (class of 2012), p...

  • Baggett Helps Cadets To Championship, Honors Sandy Hook

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    Thursday, May 9, 2013

    The Norwich University Cadets, ranked number one in the Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC), closed their lacrosse season with a 9-7 win over the second-ranked Mt Ida College to capture the program’s first-ever GNAC championship, at home in Northfield Vermont. Judd B...

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