With over 100 volunteers, Newtown Meals on Wheels is well set-up to deliver meals to local people who need such a service – and they’d like to serve more. The program, which has been in operation here since last August, offers nutritionally-balanced hot meals at a very reasonable price to members of the community.

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What do you do with a red fox? That was the question Chris Hanson was asking May 12, as he held a frightened, not-so-wild animal in his arms. Mr Hanson found the red fox on Taunton Lane running to and fro in a confused fashion. “He was just wandering around in the road,” Mr Hanson said, so, with a little effort, the young fox was captured and befriended. Checking with Game Warden Jim Jones, Mr Hanson found that he could not legally keep the fox (state law prohibits private individuals from keeping wild animals in captivity) so the pup was reluctantly surrendered to the Middlebury Field Office of the Department of Environmental Protection. The state biologist in Middlebury indicated that red foxes are becoming increasingly rare. He estimated that the fox Mr Hanson had found was about four weeks old. The biologist will study the fox (evidently their living habits are quite interesting) and after a while it will be set free in a protected area, perhaps at one of the nature reserves in nearby Woodbury. Game Warden Jones speculated that the young fox was abandoned by its mother, saying that perhaps the mother became panicked and disoriented by construction in the area of Taunton Lane.

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The Newtown Arts Festival Committee has announced that the musical play “1776” will be their first offering of the 1975-76 season as a special tribute to the Bicentennial.

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The 78th Annual Convention of the Connecticut State Federation of Women’s Clubs, Inc., took place May 8 in North Haven. The Newtown Woman’s Club had two winners in the arts and craft competition: Mrs Donald N. Curtiss, second prize, for an argyle plaid knitted afghan, and Mrs Paul VanderWende, third prize, for a pair of wildflower theorem paintings.

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On Thursday evening, May 8, the Newtown Young Republican Club had its annual election of officers. The new officers are: Marie Kertesz, chairman; Joe Toth, vice chairman; Barbara Wallace, secretary; Arlene Williams, treasurer; Rita Macmillan, director; Elinor Toth, director; Pehry Soderholm, director. Doug Rogers, chairman of the Republican Town Committee, was guest speaker.

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An application for a license to fill 0.44 acres of wetland with 7,100 cubic yards of fill on one of the most controversial properties in Newtown will be the topic of a public hearing on Monday, June 9, held by the Conservation Commission. In drawing plans for the proposed 650 sudent school on the former Boyle property off Boggs Hill Road, the architect, Richard Butterfield, allowed for the filling of a “tongue of wetland” on which the northeast corner of the school would be placed.

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Fourteen Newtown teachers who were named in an ex parte temporary injunction during the teachers’ strike in Newtown last month went to Superior Court in Bridgeport on Wednesday, May 14, where Judge Robert Berdon levied a total of $450 in fines on 11 of them and $400 fines for the other three. The fines were for violating the injunction’s orders that the teachers return to the classrooms.

MAY 19, 1950

One of the notable social events of the Hawley High School year took place last Friday evening when the class of 1951 entertained members of the senior class at the Junior Prom held in Edmond Town Hall gymnasium. More than 50 couples, students in Hawley High School and their friends, alumni, and members of the faculty were present. The decorating committee, headed by Mary Mead, had transformed the gymnasium with a gala circus setting, with red, white, and black streamers simulating a “big top,” and gaily colored balloons adding to the festive atmosphere. A high point of the evening was the crowning of Joan Pully, a member of the senior class, chosen by the dancers, as Prom queen. Henry Taylor, president of the junior class, officiated at the ceremony.

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The Borough Zoning Commission, at its meeting on Wednesday night, in view of the preponderance of the objections raised by residents of the Borough at the recent hearing, rejected the application of Mrs Edith Parker for the reclassification of her Parker House property from residence to business.

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Mrs William M. McKenzie of Queen Street was guest speaker at the regular spring meeting of the Connecticut Chapter of the National Society, Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America, held in the Hawley Manor on Monday of this week. Hostesses for the event were Mrs Chandler A. Mackay, Mrs Sanford Mead, Sr, Mrs Frank H. Mitchell, Miss Susan J. Scudder, Mrs Arthur J. Smith, Miss Alberta Twist, Miss Muriel Beers, and Mrs Bertha Curtis.

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John K. Hughes of the Huntingtown District has received the endorsement of the Republican Town Committee for appointment as deputy sheriff to succeed the late Frank A. Blackman, who died last fall, according to an announcement by Rep George K. Stuart, committee chairman.

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Newtown Brownie Troop No. 14, organized a year ago, celebrated its first birthday with a party at the NewtownCongregational Church House Wednesday, May 10, after school. A number of girls were officially invested into the Brownie ranks, receiving their pins and the right to wear the official Brownie uniform. These new members are: Carol Kondratiw, Gay Parker, Olea Smith, Nancy Trull, and Anne Ward.

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The annual Youth Club Jamboree, which every year brings together the personnel of the youth clubs of the town for demonstration of their special activities, is taking place this Friday evening in the Edmond Town Hall gymnasium beginning at 7:30 pm. On the floor, Coach Harold S. DeGroat will direct the program, and he will be assisted by Donald S. McCain, Joseph F. Hellauer, and the leaders of the various groups.

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At the state meeting of the Future Homemakers of America held at Connecticut College for Women in New London on Saturday, May 6, Miss Carolyn Nash, daughter of Mr and Mrs Floyd Nash of Queen Street, was installed as state chairman of recreation.

 

MAY 15, 1925

The Federated Workers under the chairmanship of Mrs George Beers are planning a social evening for the church and community in honor of the 25th wedding anniversary of Rev and Mrs G. Herbert Ekins.

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Patrick C. Reardon, an operator at the Hawleyville tower, is driving a new Cleveland six sedan, bought of Joseph A. Murphy of Danbury.

MAY 18, 1900

Stage driver Charles Hawley has generously offered to take all parties from Sandy Hook and vicinity to the Foresters’ Dance and return for the modest sum of $1 per couple.

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Messrs H.S. Mason and James Nichols were in Bridgeport, Monday night, to see Barbara Freitchie at the Park City Theater.