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November 10, 2000 HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER of Charlie Foss * * * * * EDITORIAL INK DROPS — THE CHALLENGE FOR OUR HOME TEAM: When the sun came up Wednesday, the day after Election Day, the nation was still unsettled over who would be moving into 1600 P...

November 3, 2000 HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER of Pat Hayes. * * * * * There is not much left of the Treadwell Park playground equipment that volunteers installed Sunday, October 22. Some blue plastic is still visible, but most is blackened from the blaze ...

October 27, 2000 HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER of Dana Fradon. * * * * * Someone entered Treadwell Park in Sandy Hook sometime overnight October 25-26 and set fire to the newly constructed Adventure Quest playground for small children, leaving the $15,000 ...

October 13, 2000 HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER of George Lockwood. EDITORIAL INK DROPS — CLEANING UP THE HOUSATONIC: “There’s no tonic like the Housatonic.” —Oliver Wendell Holmes. Before the information highway, before the interstate highway, or any of th...

October 6, 2000 HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER of Jim Shortt. * * * * * Add Newtown to the list of Connecticut towns to have a dead crow test positive for the West Nile Virus. The crow was found lying along the side of Great Hill Road last month. The positi...

September 29, 2000 HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER of Audrey Gaffney. * * * * * Newtown’s famous view from the top of Castle Hill Road has taken on a different look in recent weeks thanks to the construction project going on at Trinity Church. A protective s...

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...