Kara and Derek Rappaport of Pembroke, Mass., announce the birth of a daughter, Sydney Melissa Rappaport, on May 23 in Boston, Mass.

Sydney’s maternal grandparents are Rebecca and Dunham Smith of Sandy Hook.

Her paternal grandmother is Louise Rappaport of Hanover, Mass.

The maternal great-grandparents are Homer and Vicki Hopkins of Sandy Hook.

The paternal great-grandparents are Jean and Albert Smith of Roxbury.

Scott and Julianna (Dinsmore) Reimold of Woodbury announce the birth of a daughter, Rebecca Julianna Reimold, on May 12 at Danbury Hospital.

_ Chapman and Katherine (McLachlan) Smith of Waterbury, Vt., announce the birth of their first child, a son, Gunnar Malcolm Smith, on June 1 in Copley Hospital, Morrisville, Vt.

Malcolm and Nancy McLachlan, former longtime residents of Newtown and now of Southbury, are the maternal grandparents.

Michel, formerly of Newtown, and Stuart Weppler of Elmore, Vt., and Shapleigh, formerly of Newtown, and Peggy Smith of Stowe, Vt., are the paternal grandparents.

George Kolb of Newtown is the maternal great-grandfather.

Newtown cousins, Jack, Wiley, and Dylan Zahansky and Cooper, Scott, and Casey McLean, are all happy to welcome their new cousin Gunnar.