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August 4, 2000 HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER of Barbara Bigham * * * * * Newtown’s bobcat appears to be back. Every morning, Carlin Zeno looks out of his kitchen window into his back yard to see what wildlife is active. Sometimes, the flock of wild turkeys...

July 28, 2000 HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER of James Gaston * * * * * In the vault at the C.H. Booth Library, Daniel Cruson bends over a bound volume of back issues of The Newtown Bee, a pen and note pad readily at hand, researching another page of the his...

July 21, 2000 HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER of Rita Power * * * * * EDITORIAL INK DROPS — BHC LAND ACQUISITION, AN ENLIGHTENED MOVE BY DEP: The state Department of Environmental Protection’s announcement this week that it would like to buy about half the l...

July 14, 2000 HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER of Brian Russell * * * * * Newtown has apparently become home to a group of vandals who have gotten a kick out of painting over street signs. Their handiwork has cost the town thousands of dollars and created t...

June 30, 2000 HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER of James W. Burns. * * * * * Newtown residents attended a forum Monday night, urging town officials to decide on buying Fairfield Hills. Many said the purchase needs to move forward, while the 50-60 citizens p...

June 23, 2000 EDITORIAL INK DROPS — IMPROVING THE PARADE: Members of the Newtown Labor Day Parade Committee this week successfully petitioned the Board of Selectmen to reduce the number of permits it issues to outside vendors for the town’s annu...

June 16, 2000 HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER of Janelle Graham. * * * * * Two years ago this month, the Hook & Ladder firehouse behind Edmond Town Hall was ruled structurally unsafe after town officials discovered weaknesses in the flooring. Trucks and othe...

June 9, 2000 HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER OF Mary Harrington Tomasiewicz. * * * * * EDITORIAL INK DROPS — HELP SPREAD THE POWER OF LANGUAGE: Someone once said that language is the skin of a culture, drawing together all its component parts so that each ma...

June 2, 2000 EDITORIAL INK DROPS — IN THE ACADEMIC TRENCHES: In a few weeks there will be a lot of cheering and more than a few mortarboards sailing through the sky as educators, parents and the town as a whole mark the graduation of the Class o...

May 26, 2000 EDITORIAL INK DROPS — NEWTOWN’S BLUE RIBBON HIGH SCHOOL: Finally, the nation has recognized something that Newtowners have known all along: Newtown High School is a blue ribbon school. The high school was presented this week with th...