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Published: Dec 26, 2020 at 09:55 AM
Newtown/Sandy Hook awoke to a wet — not a white — and dark Christmas Day, December 25, after heavy overnight rains dissolved any remainders of last week’s snow and wind gusts took down trees and wires in areas of town, leaving over 3,000 outages repo...
Published: Dec 26, 2020 at 08:00 AM
Just a few doors apart along historic Main Street, the Borough will see one established food service business closing soon while another begins a phased opening that will lead to the eventual rebirth of an iconic landmark.
Dere Street Bakery owner Da...
Published: Dec 26, 2020 at 08:00 AM
For their annual fundraiser, the Town Players of Newtown hosted a live Zoom performance last weekend of Always, Anastasia by playwright and director Michelle Leigh, a gritty murder mystery about the Christmas Eve disappearance of an unhappy wife marr...
Updated: Dec 28, 2020 at 03:50 PM
The Yale Cabaret may have been founded during the “Summer of Love” in 1968, but it took 2020 and a summer of pandemic proportions to drive the venerable Yale Cabaret from stage to screen as former Newtown resident Nicole Lang helped steer the organiz...
Published: Dec 25, 2020 at 08:00 AM
Occupation: I am the general manager of Christmas. It is my responsibility to make sure all good girls and boys — of all ages — receive gifts that bring them joy. In addition to my annual 24-hour international trip to deliver those presents, I sp...
Published: Dec 25, 2020 at 07:45 AM
St Rose of Lima Roman Catholic Church introduced a new Christmas event this week, what Monsignor Robert Weiss called “a gift to say thank you for your incredible faith, and all that you have brought to each other during these very difficult and chall...
Published: Dec 25, 2020 at 07:00 AM
I do believe that many residents got their fill of exercise last Thursday, shoveling and snow blowing the nearly one foot of snow that was draped across our landscape the night before. Maybe my memory is foggy, but this seemed like more than I saw al...
Published: Dec 25, 2020 at 07:00 AM
January 12, 1996
Having barely dug its way out from last weekend’s snowstorm, Newtown braced for another possible assault this weekend... For a few days this week Newtown congratulated itself for getting through the Blizzard of 1996, which dumpe...
Published: Dec 24, 2020 at 08:00 AM
What do local children want for Christmas this year?
Three of Santa’s elves were allowed to reach out to local children this holiday season, thanks to a special arrangement between Newtown Youth & Family Services (NYFS) and the North Pole. Evergreen,...
Published: Dec 24, 2020 at 08:00 AM
It is absolutely fine — completely understandable, in fact — if someone does not feel all bright and bubbly just because it is the holiday season, says Jeff Belanger.
Belanger, who lived his formative years in Sandy Hook, knows that some of the oldes...
