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Published: May 28, 2021 at 08:05 AM
The South-West Conference girls’ and boys’ tennis tournaments were held in late May and culminated with championships on May 24.
Newtown High School’s doubles tandem of John Boccuzzi III and Ethan Hillefeld reached the championship round and fell to ...
Published: May 28, 2021 at 08:00 AM
Betty Presnell called it awesome, Joyce DeWolfe thought it was wonderful, and Kevin Corey called it magnificent.
“It” was the raising of a 20- by 30-foot American flag on the Main Street flagpole last weekend. The public was given advance notice of t...
Updated: May 28, 2021 at 01:47 PM
Coming off a 2-0 win over visiting, sixth-seeded New Milford in the South-West Conference tournament on May 22, the No. 3 Newtown High School girls’ softball team set out to avenge a pair of tough regular-season setbacks to second-seeded Notre Dame-F...
Published: May 28, 2021 at 07:30 AM
Lifelong Newtown resident Chris Layda’s curiosity recently led him down a road of discovering that some of his ancestors were just as local as he is.
“I traveled these roads my whole life and.. You assume and you daydream, but now that I know for cer...
Published: May 28, 2021 at 07:00 AM
Girl Scout Rebecca Filiato has spent the last few months creating whimsical fairy houses and inviting the community to participate in making their own for her Gold Award project.
Roughly 90 people made fairy houses, and while some chose to keep their...
Published: May 28, 2021 at 07:00 AM
The Planning and Zoning Commission (P&Z) met over Zoom on May 20 for a packed agenda of public hearings.
George Benson, director of planning for the Land Use Agency, started off by listing the applications that were being tabled until June 3.
Out of ...
Updated: May 28, 2021 at 09:19 AM
The Newtown Public Building and Site Commission (PBSC) this week formally accepted the recently occupied new police headquarters facility for full occupancy, effectively closing the file on this most recently completed public building project. The co...
Published: May 28, 2021 at 07:00 AM
June 14, 1996
A referendum has been set for Wednesday, June 19, to decide the fate of the $29 million high school and Hawley School expansion projects. More than enough signatures were gathered in a petition drive last weekend to force a machine...
Published: May 28, 2021 at 07:00 AM
The Connecticut Plein Air Painters Society (CPAPS) is planning “Capturing Connecticut’s Beauty,” a two-day art show and sale planned in and around the barn behind the Budd House, 50 Main Street.
The exhibition will be presented Friday, June 18, 1-5 p...
Published: May 28, 2021 at 07:00 AM
A reader has shared with me their concern about fireworks over the Memorial Day weekend, and I must concur. It has been fairly dry in recent weeks, so along with the usual precautions if you have fireworks in hand, dry wooded areas may be more apt to...
