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September 22, 2000 Hometown Newspaper of Christopher Stites. * * * * * Police said an employee of FGB Construction of Norwalk was injured about 1:30 pm September 19 when a massive dump truck he was operating tipped over at the site of Newtown Hu...

September 15, 2000 HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER of Margareta Kotch * * * * * Workers from Connecticut Bomanite Company laid down 230 feet of new sidewalk in front of the Budd House at 50 Main Street this week. The project is being paid for through the Bor...

September 8, 2000 HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER of Marty Maciag * * * * * EDITORIAL INK DROPS — HANGING UP ON TELEMARKETERS: We all have long days where all you want to do is go home, wrap your family around you, and luxuriate in the privacy of your own ho...

September 1, 2000 HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER of Lorraine VanderWende * * * * * EDITORIAL INK DROPS —THE LABOR DAY PARADE: If a town could have a stream of consciousness, Newtown’s would look a lot like the Labor Day Parade. If you are among the thousand...

August 18, 2000 HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER of Debbie Coyle * * * * * The town offices that currently share Canaan House will have a new neighbor starting August 30, as the Newtown school district plans to open what officials call “an alternative high sc...

August 11, 2000 HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER of Cindy Landin * * * * * In a job performance evaluation of Captain Michael Kehoe, who has headed the police department for more than a year, the Police Commission gives Capt Kehoe high marks, saying he has pe...

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...