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Published: Aug 28, 2021 at 07:30 AM
The Newtown Lions Club is kicking off Newtown’s Labor Day weekend in Sandy Hook Center on Saturday, September 4, with the long-awaited 2021 Great Pootatuck Duck Race.
Recent rainfall pretty much ensures a great race down the Pootatuck River after Fi...
Published: Aug 28, 2021 at 07:00 AM
Dr Willa Horowitz of Acuity Hearing Solutions, LLC, came to the Newtown Senior Center’s Lunch and Learn program on Friday, August 20, to educate approximately 30 seniors on ways to protect their hearing and deal with hearing loss.
Dr Horowitz, a doct...
Updated: Aug 28, 2021 at 09:48 AM
August 23, 1996
The defeat in Tuesday’s referendum of a proposal to spend $840,000 renovating Town Hall South has left town officials scrambling to decide what should be done with the deteriorating building and the staff that works there. Seven ...
Published: Aug 27, 2021 at 04:00 PM
The 45th annual Ukrainian Festival is scheduled for Sunday, August 29, at Paproski’s Castle Hill Farm pumpkin patch, 25 Sugar Lane. The festival will take place rain or shine.
Admission is free. Parking is $5 per vehicle, and plenty of parking is ava...
Updated: Aug 27, 2021 at 03:31 PM
A trio of local runners, including a parent of one of the 20 first graders killed in the Sandy Hook tragedy, will traverse a 95-mile course covering three states as the Hartford Marathon Foundation’s RiMaConn Relay, presented by Webster Bank, hits th...
Updated: Aug 27, 2021 at 10:15 AM
Edward H. “Ed” Bucnis, 82, of Newtown, passed away on August 24, at home, surrounded by his loving and devoted family. He was the beloved husband of Stacia (Von Alt) Bucnis, whom he married on February 24, 1962.
Born on January 17, 1939, in Chicago, ...
Updated: Aug 30, 2021 at 12:05 PM
Faculty and staff were welcomed to the 2021-22 school year this week with a convocation at Newtown High School, and students are set to start the school year on Monday, August 30. Newtown and Sandy Hook parents can submit photos from the first day of...
Published: Aug 27, 2021 at 08:00 AM
Want to know the secret to having access to unlimited knowledge, epic fantasy worlds, historic documents, and endless entertainment? Well, it is not something grand or expensive — in fact, it can fit in your pocket: a library card.
Since 1987, the Am...
Updated: Aug 27, 2021 at 03:32 PM
Newtown’s Oliver Guzy, 14, participated in the National Junior Olympic Track and Field Championships, in Houston, Texas, this summer. He competed in the 100 meter hurdles and the long jump event.
Guzy qualified as Northeast champion, earning the gold...
Published: Aug 27, 2021 at 07:00 AM
Director of Business & Finance Tanja Vadas shared summaries of the school district’s 2020-21 fiscal year-end budget report, and the first budget report for the 2021-22 fiscal year at the Board of Education’s meeting on August 25, held both in person ...
