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First Selectman Jack Rosenthal said April 8 it was “an absolute disgrace” that some people have been dumping garbage on undeveloped sections of some town roads. During the month of March the Highway Department reported picking up and carting away 21 large truckloads of trash from five roads, he said. He said it is difficult for the town to prevent such dumping, because people must be caught in the act, and the dumping occurs in isolated areas.

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Reviewing the proposed 1985-86 budget on April 9 and 10, the Legislative Council tentatively cut $527,000 from the Board of Education’s budget and another $17,872 from the Board of Selectmen’s budget. The impact that the council’s $527,000 reduction would have in the education budget was mitigated by council members’ statements that a total of $385,000 of the items budgeted for the 1985-86 school budget could be funded by other ways.

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Newtown High School track and field coaches have been waiting to have the track in Bruce Jenner Stadium lined, and it appears they’ll have to wait a little more. The track has been put off to last because of the difficulty in lining it. Last fall the rotting wood border that circles the track was pulled out and with it went the distance marks that were on the wood. Compounding the difficulty is that the quarter-mile track must be lined for metric-measured events. High school coaches were upset because their runners haven’t had a chance to practice with lanes.

 

April 15, 1960

No doubt many of Connecticut’s anglers are concerned about the effect which the recent flooding conditions in most of our streams will have upon Opening Day success. It appears that stream levels on the 16th will be about back to normal. Waters are presently receding and unless weather condition change appreciably, the outlook is good, especially for smaller streams.

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AVON WORLD’S LARGEST COSMETIC COMPANY has openings for neat, mature women. Average $2 per hour. We train you. Openings in Woodbury, New Milford, Newtown, Trumbull and Easton. PI 3-6737 or VO 6-9800 for details.

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Judge Paul V. McNamara was elected chairman of the Newtown Democratic Town Committee at the organizational meeting Monday evening, and his election was followed closely by his resignation as deputy judge of the Newtown Town Court.

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The Newtown High School Gym Show was given high approval by the two overflow audiences which saw it last Thursday afternoon and Friday evening. The annual trampoline high-jump contest held the interest of the crowd to the last.

April 12, 1935

Hawley School Notes: The Junior Business Training Class have studied the chapter, “Money and Credit.” In their workbooks they have made out payrolls, bills and customers’ ledger accounts. The next chapter to be studied is “Thrift.”

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Preparations for the Card Party which is to be held on the evening of May 2, at the Edmond Town Hall Gymnasium are progressing nicely. Over 150 tickets have already been sold and every indication points to the largest card party in attendance that has ever been held in this town. The admission is 50 cents. The proceeds will be devoted entirely toward the expenses of Newtown’s forthcoming Tercentenary celebration.

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Plans for Newtown’s Tercentenary Celebration are progressing nicely, under the capable chairmanship of W.M. McKenzie. An information booth is to be erected on the Main street, just north of the Edmond Town Hall. This celebration promises to be a very happy chain of events and the committee of the Chamber of Commerce speaks in earnest for the generous support of everyone in this event embracing the whole township.

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It is not a comforting thought to house-owners in Fairfield County that they must be on the watch for a possible infestation of termites, or “white ants.” And it is especially disquieting to Newtowners to know that within the past few days some of the pests have been found here. The men from the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station at New Haven will come to your aid and advise the treatment.

 

April 15, 1910

H.M. Greenman is to have hot and cold water, a bath room and all the modern improvements put in at his home at Cold Spring farm and is now piping the water from a well opposite his house and will have a pneumatic system installed to carry the water all over his house.

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Master Willie Gorham of Taunton has bee ill with the mumps. Robert Hawley has been a victim of the mumps.

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Thomas O. Murphy of Botsford killed a fine large red fox near his house one day, last week.

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The new Danbury hospital will be open to the public for inspection, Saturday, April 16, from 2 to 5 pm. The managers of the hospital announce that no special invitations will be issued but that the people of Newtown and vicinity are cordially invited to attend the exercises which take place at 3 o’ clock.