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The Hadron Big Bangers: When Physics and Music Collide

By Kendra Bobowick
Published: June 17, 2013 12:00 am
Considered an engineering milestone, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world’s largest particle accelerator. The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) built the Hadron Collider from 1...

Vintage Wedding Wear Makes Up New Library Exhibit

By Nancy Crevier
Published: June 17, 2013 12:00 am
Wedding dresses and trousseau items from the late 1800s to the 1960s will be displayed in the Mary Hawley dining room, on the third floor of the C.H. Booth Library, beginning Thursday, June 20, said l...

The Top of the Mountain

Published: June 14, 2013 12:00 am
CBS News out of Manitoba, Canada, reports that singer Harry Connick, Jr, has written a song especially for Ana Marquez-Greene. “Love Wins” is the song on Harry’s new CD, written in memory of 6-year-ol...

Snapshot: Jane Cottingham

Published: June 14, 2013 12:00 am
Occupation: I’ve been an antiques dealer for over 40 years, and I’ve owned four shops, including one in Newtown, in the 1980s. It was in the building on the corner of Pecks Lane, where the pasta s...

Through Rain, Then Sunshine, Another Successful LobsterFest

By Shannon Hicks
Published: June 14, 2013 12:00 am
Days of rain led up to the 26th Annual Sandy Hook Volunteer Fire & Rescue Co.’s LobsterFest last week, but the addition of a series of tents to cover guests as they approached the ticket tables and th...

The Way We Were

Published: June 14, 2013 12:00 am
June 17, 1988 The effort to find a “hang out” for Newtown youths free from hassle and the threat of trespassing tickets, until now an all-talk-and-no-action proposition, finally bore some fruit t...

Yarn Craze Adds Color To Newtown

By Nancy K. Crevier
Published: June 07, 2013 12:00 am
It would be odd to find trees wrapped in knit scarves anytime of the year, and even more so in the summer. But visitors to the Fairfield Hills property this weekend might be surprised to find the tree...

The Way We Were

Published: June 07, 2013 12:00 am
June 10, 1988 A standing room only crowd of 150–200 teenagers and parents showed up at a forum held at the Newtown Congregational Church House, Tuesday night, to discuss the problem of providing ...