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Published: Apr 12, 2025 at 07:30 AM
Children and families of Christ the King Lutheran Church spent the morning of Saturday, March 29, collecting items for a donation drive to benefit Newtown Animal Control Shelter.
Members of the Newtown community and beyond dropped off requested items...
Published: Apr 12, 2025 at 07:30 AM
Each month Newtown Allies For Change (NAFC) shines a spotlight on a local person, business, or organization that has demonstrated exemplary behavior of allyship of Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC). This month, the grassroots advocacy group ...
Published: Apr 12, 2025 at 07:30 AM
The World Heritage Cultural Center will present the first International Food and Music Festival on Saturday, May 10, 10 am-8 pm, at the Sandy Hook Volunteer Fire & Rescue main station, 18-20 Riverside Road.
One of the festival’s highlights will be th...
Published: Apr 12, 2025 at 07:00 AM
C.H. Booth Library has recently announced that Danbury resident Shannon Henggeler won their 2025 Adult Winter Reading Bingo Challenge. The challenge ran from January 3 to March 13 and encouraged people to step out of their comfort zone and read somet...
Published: Apr 12, 2025 at 06:50 AM
Sparked by Aashni Shetty’s school record-setting long and triple jump performances, Newtown High School’s girls’ outdoor track and field team sprung into action with a victorious opening meet, at Joel Barlow of Redding on April 8.
Despite the cold — ...
Published: Apr 12, 2025 at 06:50 AM
Newtown High School’s baseball team nearly overcame a seven-run deficit in an 11-10 loss to host Fairfield Ludlowe, at Kiwanis Field, in the April 8 season opener.
The Nighthawks took the early lead with a pair of runs on a Wes Keayes first-inning si...
Published: Apr 11, 2025 at 04:00 PM
April 14, 2000
HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER of Fawn Schmidt.
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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...
Published: Apr 11, 2025 at 10:14 AM
To the Editor:
I am writing today to urge my neighbors to please vote “yes” on referendum questions 5, 6, and 7.
There is a real danger that if we do not give the Town permission to issue bonds to cover these critical infrastructure projects, the lib...
Published: Apr 11, 2025 at 10:13 AM
To the Editor:
We have some important decisions to make here in Newtown on April 22. Number 5 on the ballot is for a bond measure for a new HVAC system for the library. The library currently works on one of two boilers; the other hasn’t worked for so...
Published: Apr 11, 2025 at 10:12 AM
To the Editor:
I am writing to express my dismay regarding the recent hands off rally. My concern rests on the seeming lack of understanding by those attending the rally regarding the nature of the existential threat posed to our democracy by our cur...
