While some of us settle for a week at the shore, camping outdoor, or even a quiet rest at home, Leon Barkman of Newtown decided he preferred a more interesting vacation. Following what he terms as his "basic sense of discovery," Leon cycled acros
While some of us settle for a week at the shore, camping outdoor, or even a quiet rest at home, Leon Barkman of Newtown decided he preferred a more interesting vacation. Following what he terms as his âbasic sense of discovery,â Leon cycled across the continent for 45 days of his summer vacation.
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It is probably not surprising, given the emotions which surrounded the issue, that on the heels of the Board of Ethicsâ controversial party-line vote last week on the complaint filed against Republican Councilman Roderick MacKenzie, that a Democratic council member is already calling for the new charter revision commission to consider whether the board should be disbanded.
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John W. Anderson, of Rock Ridge Road, who has served as Newtownâs legislator in the 106th District since 1974, announced last night he would not run again for the assembly seat.
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The Town of Newtown formally applied to the Federal Department of Housing and Urban Development on July 15 for a $250,000 grant for reconstruction of four unimproved dirt roads in the Pootatuck Park section of Sandy Hook, and for ten grants of $3,000 each which will enable eligible residents of that area to rehabilitate homes.
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Church Hill Road from Queen Street to the flagpole was closed off by Newtown police from 3 to 8 pm Tuesday as a result of a natural gas line break caused by the contractor laying new conduit for SNET.
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Rabbi Jeffrey Segelman will conduct his last Sabbath services at Congregation Adath Israel this weekend. A special Oneg Shabbat will be celebrated in his honor after services Friday evening. Rabbi Segelman will be leaving the synagogue to study in Israel.
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Fifteen Newtown youngsters gathered at the swimming pool at Dickinson Memorial Town Park to swim laps for the benefit of the Red Cross water safety programs in the Danbury area in the first Swim-A-Cross held in Newtown. Over $200 was raised as the young swimmers swam laps for pledges.
July 22, 1955
North Bay Ontario, July 20. The Newtown Bee: Excellent canoe trip. Good weather, except heavy rain first day and night in the woods. Fishing fair. Caught enough to eat. Mosquitoes normal for Julyâ¦All patrol in good health. William Wilson, Scribe, Pine Tree Patrol, Explorer Post 70.
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Two Newtown brothers, themselves twins, became fathers on the same day, each for the fifth time, when Mrs Raymond Miller presented her husband with a daughter and Mrs Ralph Miller gave birth to a son in Danbury Hospital last Thursday, July 14.
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 Announcement is made by the Newtown Board of Selectmen that the CL&P Company, through its real estate engineer, Jeff S. Lewis, has offered the town of Newtown a piece of property on the new lake to be formed by the flooding of the Shepaug Dam on the Housatonic River.
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 Traffic ground to a halt on Route 25 at Whisconier Hill on Tuesday morning for close to an hour as the highwayâs bulkiest cargo of many a year, a house, was eased down the steep roadway to start its trip to Main Street, Newtown, to become the home of Stuart Haskins, newly-appointed associate minister of the Newtown Congregational Church, his wife and small daughter. The five-room cottage was taken from its former location on Whisconier Hill, Brookfield, and transferred in two pieces.
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He measures five by six feet and he sits atop his 88-foot pinnacle on the Congregational Church from the earliest dawn through the waning light with his silhouette sharply outlined against the evening sky. Like a silent sentinel our rooster has been overlooking his domain since before the days when he was a target for the homemade rifle balls of cumbersome firepiecesâ¦
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J. Frederick Seman, game chairman of the Newtown Fish and Game Club, recently received 200 six-week old pheasants from the State Board of Fisheries and Game, to be raised at his home on Old Hawleyville Road, Newtown, by the club, and to be released in the early fall.
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Ceramics classes are very popular with the young people on the Hawley Playground. How the very popular and enthusiastic Mrs Barnard can handle so many and have so many turn out things to go home is a mystery to all.
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July 18, 1930
 The Osborne Barnes Co., having completed the two lines of cement highway from Danbury to the Hawleyville Road, began laying cement on the Newtown end, Tuesday morning. The company are making excellent progress and it now appears that August 1 will see the road practically completed, with the exception of the shoulders.
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 Epstein & Co., of New York have taken the contract from the State Fish & Game Commission to rid the waters of Lake Zoar from carp. They are netting them out and storing them in the Foundry Pond, which they have leased of Mr Conway. They are later shipped to New York City and marketed by Max Epstein.
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Morris Weinstein was not arrested on a traffic violation and brought into the local Town court. It was a Weinstein of another name. The Bee cheerfully makes the correction.
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W.A. Upham has completed the laying out of an 18-hole miniature golf course on the Island in his little lake at the Upham Japanese Tea Garden at Hawleyville, which will formally open on Saturday of this week.
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Sandy Hook opened the second section of play in the Intertown League, last Sunday, on the Georgetown diamond with a seven to five victory. Georgetown threatened to win the game in the eighth inning, when they scored two runs and had the bases filled with one out when a fast double play executed by Whittem, G. Conger, Hubbell, and A. Kuhne retired the side.
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On August 5, will occur the 225th anniversary of the first purchase of land from the Indians by the pioneers of Newtown. The event was fittingly celebrated in Newtown on the 200th anniversary with a three day celebration, which was one of the greatest events ever held in town. The town was gay with bunting from one end to the other.
July 21, 1905
A platform for the speakers, invited guests and chorus at the Bi-Centennial celebration is to be erected in the center of the track opposite the grand stand on Ronald Park. George A. Northrop will do the work, the committee having the matter in charge consisting of Allison P. Smith, P.H. McCarthy and Rev O.O. Wright.
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Next week Charles F. Beardsley, chairman of the entertainment committee of the Bi-Centennial celebration, and assistants, will begin a canvass of the town for provisions for the free lunch that is to be served on that day. Housekeepers are asked to be ready to let Mr Beardsley know what they will provide.
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Everything indicates the Bi-Centennial parade on the morning of August 5, is going to be a booming success. Mr Peck now expects there will be 15 decorated floats in line, while the school children from each district are to ride in decorated wagons.
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At Camp Pootatuck on the Housatonic River, where 30 Bridgeport boys from the Bridgeport YMCA are enjoying life, with George F. Hyde as chaperone, a general jollification will be held this (Thursday) evening at 8 oâclock. There will be a display of fireworks and a number of fire balloons will be sent up.
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Last week Tuesday William Ruffels had his best horse severely injured by having the handle of a shovel, in some unaccountable way, run into its bowels a foot and a half. The handle entered the bowels just in front of the hip. The horse is still alive and it is hoped it may recover.
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Herbert Flansburgh has laid out a large tennis court on the pleasant lawn north of his home, which is greatly enjoyed by himself and guests.