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February 23, 2001 HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER of Mary Ann Murtha. * * * * * EDITORIAL INK DROPS — COMMON SENSE ABOUT DRIVING AND CELL PHONES: There is a bill currently before the legislature that would make it illegal to use hand-held cell phones while d...

Newtown hosted its latest National Night Out event on August 5 and estimates report more than 500 people visited the Fairfield Hills campus for the family event. National Night Out is celebrated in all 50 US states, as well as US territories, Canadia...

Newtown Police Department members celebrated the retirement of officer John McCluskey with a ceremony at their police department on Friday, March 28. A large number of officers and members of the public, including First Selectman Jeff Capeci as well ...

Career: I am self-employed. I am the founder of Variation Visuals, a video production house based in Sandy Hook and an Emmy Award-winning producer for the documentary Uncertainty. Variation Visuals creates impactful video content for businesses, ...

Today is the first day of winter. Mother Nature seems to have forgotten that so far this season, with little more than a squall or two so far. Maybe the appearance of our wood cutout snowman in front of the office this week will help drive the point ...

Pedro DeAbreu was stopped by more than a few people recently, while working on our building at 5 Church Hill Road. For a few weeks, Pedro and members of his crew have been sanding, doing light repairs, and repainting our building — which went from it...

A reminder this week that Dan Rosenthal is inviting residents to put on their walking shoes and step outdoors with him. The first selectman is resurrecting Walk & Talk with First Selectman Rosenthal, a program that invites residents to walk within Fa...

Four generations of Newtown residents represented the community in some form during an ambitious and hastily arranged Memorial Day tribute that featured dozens of musicians performing “Taps” in succession, beginning at 10 am, May 25, along the Housa...

Congratulations to the Newtown High School Nighthawks Football Team! A dramatic end to Saturday’s game — tied, with three seconds left — saw quarterback Jack Street throw a perfect pass to teammate Riley Ward, who in turn wasted no time in running th...

Why do cows wear bells? Because they don’t have horns, of course. If this corny joke is your sort of humor, or even if it is not, you can get lost... in the Castle Hill Farm corn maze, that is. Castle Hill Farm’s corn maze is open for yet another sea...