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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...

May 19, 2000 HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER OF Paul Hansen. * * * * * EDITORIAL INK DROPS — SAVORING THE SIGNS OF CHANGE: It is difficult to determine when it happened, when Newtown shed its brown-hued winter coat for the verdant vestments it now wears. Sur...

May 12, 2000 HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER of Lillian Barry. * * * * * EDITORIAL INK DROPS — HOW BIG IS NEWTOWN? Yes, how big is Newtown? We won’t know for certain until the results of the 2000 Census are released in about a year, and by then we still won’...

May 5, 2000 HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER of Teny Bacon-Smith. * * * * * The Legislative Council voted Tuesday to trim the proposed 2000-01 town budget by $2.1 million one week after the originally proposed budget was defeated at the polls. The new budget — to ...

April 28, 2000 HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER of Debra Sennefelder. * * * * * EDITORIAL INK DROPS — SPRING CLEANING: A lot of beautiful things get cast up out of the ground in the spring. When April showers permit, a walk along almost any road or highway wi...

April 21, 2000 HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER of Deborah Osborne. * * * * * The Board of Selectmen this week said it needs more information from the Fairfield Hills advisory committee before it makes a recommendation to the Legislative Council on whether or...

April 14, 2000 HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER of Fawn Schmidt. * * * * * The state Department of Labor has decided against paying unemployment benefits to former police chief James E. Lysaght, Jr, deciding he was terminated from his $65,280 annual post by t...