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Family Dinner & Fun Night Returning

Published: September 05, 2013 12:00 am
The Newtown Parent Connection, Inc., whose commitment is to “educate, empower, and embrace,” joins with Newtown Prevention Council to invite the community to celebrate family unity on Friday, Septembe...

An Educational Summer For Three NMS Teachers

By Eliza Hallabeck
Published: September 05, 2013 12:00 am
Newtown Middle School eighth grade social studies teacher Susan Lang has been applying for grants through the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) off and on for a few years, but this year she ...

NHS Teacher Raising Funds To Help Restore School Auditorium

By Eliza Hallabeck
Published: September 05, 2013 12:00 am
Newtown High School applied technology teacher Tom Swetts is hoping to raise money to improve the NHS auditorium before he retires at the end of this school year. When he started working at the school...

Cub Scout Pack 170 Slates Ice Cream Social

Published: September 05, 2013 12:00 am
Cub Scout Pack 170 invites all boys entering first through fourth grade, and siblings, to an ice cream social slated for Thursday, September 12, in the pavilion at Treadwell Park, 39 Philo Curtis Road...

Family Picnic At Dickinson Park For Incoming Fifth Graders

By Eliza Hallabeck
Published: August 29, 2013 12:00 am
Incoming fifth grade Reed Intermediate School students, family members, and friends were welcomed at Dickinson Park on Monday, August 26. The event was coordinated by the school’s Parent Teacher Assoc...

NHS Class Of 2017 Welcomed During Orientation

By Colleen Francke
Published: August 29, 2013 12:00 am
Newtown High School opened its doors a week early for the incoming Class of 2017 on Wednesday, August 21, for a day of icebreakers, tours, questions and answer sessions, and opportunities to voice any...

'City Of Bones' Fans Hold Pre-Premiere Party At Booth Library

By Colleen Francke
Published: August 29, 2013 12:00 am
Cassandra Clare fans of all ages congregated at C.H. Booth Public Library on Tuesday, August 20, to celebrate the upcoming release, on August 21, of the City of Bones film, based on the author’s book ...

Classrooms Open, Buses Roll For The 2013-14 School Year

By Eliza Hallabeck
Published: August 29, 2013 12:00 am
Students across the district stepped onto buses for the first time of the 2013-14 school year Tuesday, August 27, while teachers and school staff waited to welcome them. “By all reports, people were e...

Local Girl Scouts Collecting For 'Bedtime Bundles'

Published: August 29, 2013 12:00 am
Newtown Girl Scout Troop 50859 members Maria Ringes and Diana Kirkman, both students at Immaculate High School, are hoping to provide “Bedtime Bundles” for children who stay overnight at Yale New Have...

NHS Class Of 1993 Slates 20-Year Reunion

Published: August 29, 2013 12:00 am
The Newtown High Class of 1993 has set its 20-year reunion for October 12, from 7 pm until 11 pm at the Inn at Newtown.  The cost is $35 per person, which needs to be sent to Gordon Wong either via Pa...