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There are some combinations in the world that simply make sense: eggs and bacon, vanilla ice cream and hot fudge, spinach and garlic. In Irish traditional music, one of those combinations is the fiddle and the uilleann pipes. The reedy tone and stead...

Scores of pieces of heavy equipment, which had been used by JF Walsh Mulch & Logging Co. for years at its Sandy Hook work yard at 4 Toddy Hill Road, were sold at auction there on November 20. About 300 people attended. The mulch yard’s section with f...

Sirens and flashing emergency vehicle lights were the first hint that more than 2,000 motorcycles were about to raise a long rumble past bystanders Sunday, August 30, for the 15th Annual CT United Ride. The ride, which started after 9/11, is both a t...

Newtown High School alum Aaron Johnson rolled into the parking lot of his alma mater one recent sizzling summer afternoon, parked, and pulled out a microwave-sized case removing what looked like a big white plastic X. But after quickly affixing four ...

I do have to disagree with my friends of the Old Farmers’ Almanac, who seem to be having an off year predicting this summer’s weather. “Hotter and drier than normal” does not seem to fit the bill here in New England, where temperatures were downright...

The youngsters lined up along Main Street, Monday morning, September 1, could not settle on any one thing they were looking forward to in the 2014 Newtown Labor Day Parade that was about to step off, just a mile up the road. But Anna and Abigail Coug...

Late Tuesday morning, after an extensive daylong search, a frail elderly man who had been missing since Monday from his 162 Hattertown Road home was found unharmed, sleeping in a farm field off Head O’ Meadow Road. The search for Martin Lee Allen, 71...

Jeff Shwartz is a beekeeper, which entails much more than a sweet, amber-colored reward. “Believe it or not, I thought I wanted honey,” he said. Regarding the work he began in 2007, he said, “I thought that a couple of times a year you pull on a deep...