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A huge, heartfelt thank you to the staff and students of our middle school for inviting the seniors to a lovely refreshment time and then their p...
Newtown Interfaith Council will sponsor the first “21st Century Conversations” session in the Great Room at Newtown Congregational Church, 14 West Street, on Tu...
Name: Alissa Silber
Title: Full-Time Features Reporter
Duties: The weekly Snapshot profile and Bee Lines column, For Your Dining Pleasure, the Busin...
EverWonder Children’s Museum, at 31 Pecks Lane, has announced its calendar for April 2019.
Spring has Sprung in the Yellow Art Lab. Visitors this month will be ...
Name: Kendra Bobowick
Title: Reporter
Duties: Photographing events in town; writing about general news items, environmental stories, and volunteer c...
The Flagpole Photographers Camera Club invites the public to join them for a presentation on “Travel Photography” by local photographer and club member Rhonda C...
The next meeting of The Genealogy Club of Newtown is scheduled for Wednesday, April 10.
This month’s speaker will be Paul Hadzima, who will present “Researching...
Women’s fashion has represented a larger context with its changing styles throughout history. Newtown Historical Society will walk down the runway with those st...
On Wednesday, April 10, at 7:30 pm, The Society of Creative Arts of Newtown (SCAN) will have Robert Lenz painting a still life in oil.
The program will be offer...
Risk A Verse is like nothing else happening in Newtown, the event organizers say.
The fourth annual National Poetry Month event will return to Newtown Meeting H...
Lamont Directs Flags To Half-Staff Friday In Honor Of Former US Senator Joseph LiebermanGovernor Ned Lamont is directing US and state flags in Connecticut to be lowered to half-staff from sunrise to sunset tomorrow as a mark of solemn respect for the memory and longstanding service of former US Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, who died Wednesday. HARTFORD — Governor Ned Lamont today announced that as a mark of solemn respect for the memory and longstanding service of former US Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, who died Wednesday, March 27, he is directing US and state flags in Connecticut lowered to half-staff from sunrise to sunset on the day of the former senator’s funeral, which has been scheduled for Friday, March 29.Accordingly, since no flag should fly higher than the US flag, all other flags, including state, municipal, corporate, or otherwise, should also be lowered during this same duration of time.The funeral service will be held at Congregation Agudath Sholom in Stamford.Lieberman, who nearly won the vice presidency on the Democratic ticket with Al Gore in the disputed 2000 election and who almost became Republican John McCain’s running mate eight years later, died in New York City on Wednesday due to complications from a fall, according to a statement issued by his family. He was 82.Lieberman and his wife, Hadassah, have four children.
They have their hands in all their 'neighbors' wallets.