Students and faculty at Fraser Woods Montessori School celebrated Thanksgiving with a ceremony on Wednesday, November 23, in their Common Area.
The assembly bro...
"Our board is really excited" about the prospect of locating REACH Newtown headquarters to Fairfield Hills, potentially in a duplex similar to the building rece...
Asleep At Wheel
At about 8:23 am on November 22, motorist Monsour Michael, 65, of Danbury, who was driving a 2016 Jeep Cherokee SUV on westbound Interstate...
Carolita "Tinker" Pratt, 82, of Clearwater, Fla., and Newtown, died peacefully November 24. She was born on October 14,1934, in Huntington, Vt. She was the thir...
George M. Lincoln, Jr, 81, of Newtown died November 28. He was born June 8, 1935, in East Orange, N.J.
He attended Cranford (N.J.) High School, Class of 1953, a...
C.H. Booth Library is offering a series of creative writing sessions for young adults in grades six through eight.The Young Adult Creative Writing program is fu...
The two-way radio dispatchers working at the Newtown Emergency Communications Center located in Town Hall South at 3 Main Street report the following fire calls...
This weekend heralds some spectacular festivities in Newtown, starting at dusk on Friday evening when candle-lit luminarias lining Main Street and encircling Ha...
Eugene "Gene" F. Kelly, 90, of Tampa, Fla., died on November 27. He was born and raised in Jersey City, N.J., and was a son of Elizabeth V. and Dr James E. Kell...
To the Editor:
Our children are our future. How often have we heard that line? Probably more times than we can count, but it is truer now than ever before, espe...
I was an employee at the same time Keat's was working for Grand Union at the Valley Stream store on Long Island remember him vividly after all of these years.
The only time the word "fail" is found on this entire page is from your post. Newtown used to be a Blue Ribbon school district; it hasn't been for some time. For many of us who expect excellence in our Town's public school system the current performance levels are underwhelming, which is exactly what Mr. Higgins points out. It would be wonderful if you could specifically tell us where in this letter Mr. Higgins is "tearing down" the school system. You sir, seem to be employing typical Democratic Party tactics by twisting the words of anyone who isn't in your party to craft your own narrative. Voters beware.
Mr Higgins seems to be joining other Republicans in claiming Newtown Schools are failing. . I challenge that perspective, Our High School is rated in the top 5% nationwide, and our system in the top 20% of schools in CT, which is rated the 4th best statewide system.
Criticizing our schools has become the essences of this years Republican campaign. We should always strive to improve our schools, but tearing them down is not the way to do this. Reader beware.
As an independent I applaud [Barney] for being unaffiliated. However that is not the case in this election. Running on the Republican Line makes him beholden to the Party he is running for. He is not unaffiliated in his actions,. This time around he has signed onto a major parties agenda. like it or not. If he bucks the party next election he'll be out.
