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October 26, 2001 EDITORIAL INK DROPS — KIDS IN THE SEASON OF DARKNESS: Each year, a few days after standard time returns and the dark cloak of winter gets cinched up around the shoulders of the day, we have some fun with the new dinnertime darkn...

October 19, 2001 HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER of Stephanie Gaston. * * * * * While Howard Lasher was attending a memorial service in New York City’s St Patrick’s Cathedral for the victims of the World Trade Center disaster, he felt he had to do something ...

October 12, 2001 HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER OF Mike Carrigg. * * * * * Hawley Pond, a picturesque duck pond located near the southern end of the Ram Pasture, normally shimmers in the sun, as mallards and Canada geese swim lazily on its surface. For the ...

October 5, 2001 EDITORIAL INK DROPS — A LESSON IN FEAR: A decision by Newtown Middle School Principal Diane Sherlock and eighth grade faculty to cancel an eighth grade field trip to Washington, D.C., and the Gettysburg battlefield has drawn crit...

September 28, 2001 HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER of Chris Vadas. * * * * * Many feel compelled to doing something to help volunteers who are helping with the rescue efforts in New York City as well as the families who have lost someone — children included....

September 21, 2001 EDITORIAL INK DROPS — THOUGHTS THAT CHANGE THE WORLD: Having more than 5,000 people die in one place on a sunny fall morning changes everything. Whatever most of us may have been thinking about life on the morning of September...

September 14, 2001 EDITORIAL INK DROPS — SETTING THE WORLD RIGHT AGAIN: What does one do? When planes and buildings fall out of the sky, killing those in them who trusted their solidity, their stability, their absolute functionality, what does o...

September 7, 2001 Newtown Girl Scouts held a free coffee break for motorists who were traveling on the Labor Day Weekend. The scouts offered free coffee, tea, and doughnuts to motorists under a tent erected at the intersection of Church Hill Roa...

August 31, 2001 EDITORIAL INK DROPS — A PARADE TO REMEMBER: Go check the calendar on the refrigerator and notice how the squares are filling in on the other side of September 3. It's an ominous sign and more than a little unsettling for those o...

August 24, 2001 Police on Wednesday, August 22, arrested a 16-year-old Sandy Hook youth on a felony charge of first-degree criminal mischief for allegedly turning on an emergency shower in Newtown High School on Friday, July 13, and causing ext...