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Updated: Aug 10, 2020 at 10:42 AM
UPDATE (Sunday, August 9, 2020): This story has been update to reflect who responded to the August 8 incident in Pootatuck Park .
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Four days after Tropical Storm Isaias, just about 50 percent of Newtown remains without electricity.
Ev...
Updated: Aug 08, 2020 at 04:10 PM
To the Editor:
Since our Rally 4 Change event in June, almost 2,000 people have signed our Pledge and Call for Action petition. The 1,226 members of Newtown Allies For Change pledge to call out racism and microaggressions at all times. Therefore, in ...
Updated: Aug 08, 2020 at 04:08 PM
To the Editor:
One problem this pandemic has exposed is that there’s little support for parents and caregivers in our country. I remember how difficult it was as a working single parent to find child care. The burden of caregiving falls primarily on ...
Updated: Aug 08, 2020 at 04:20 PM
Newtown is readying for sports to begin again, following the release of the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference’s (CIAC) 2020-21 Fall Sports Plan.
Matt Memoli, Newtown’s athletic director, said the district will be using the newly release...
Updated: Aug 10, 2020 at 10:00 AM
UPDATE (Monday, August 10, 2020): This story has been updated to reflect that the water being made available at three firehouses is potable.
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Within hours of Tropical Storm Isaias moving through the community on August 4 — leaving ...
Published: Aug 08, 2020 at 07:00 AM
While distracted driving enforcement is heightened during targeted campaigns like one launching this week, a Newtown traffic safety scientist believes Connecticut and the nation will have to ratchet up enforcement as he worries behaviors like texting...
Updated: Aug 07, 2020 at 04:22 PM
As some COVID-19 restrictions have relaxed and data about outdoor virus transmission trends indicate diminished risks for smaller gatherings, two local concert promotersare hoping to bring some music and laughter into peoples’ lives.
Waterbury-based...
Published: Aug 07, 2020 at 03:35 PM
Robert “Bob” Edward Sniadecki, 74, of Brooksville, Florida, passed away on Tuesday, July 14, at the HPH Hospice Care Center.
He was born August 5, 1945, in Bridgeport and grew up in Sandy Hook. Bob was a resident of Naugatuck before he moved to Brook...
Published: Aug 07, 2020 at 03:30 PM
The Ingersoll Auto Pop-Up Drive-In Movie Theater at Edmond Town Hall was having a rough week to begin with — a few of its recent screenings were canceled due to bad weather — but then Tropical Storm Isaias made things even worse. The strong winds of ...
Updated: Aug 07, 2020 at 04:56 PM
Locally, Newtown’s Health District Director Donna Culbert is echoing some of the same sentiments Dr Anthony Fauci, America’s leading epidemiologist, said about much of Connecticut as the state weathered its first full week of August dealing with a de...
