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Updated: Mar 25, 2020 at 09:07 AM
Open spaces were overrun with an influx of residents getting away from Cabin Fever on the weekend of March 21 and 22. As businesses close or offer limited services, town schools and playgrounds close, and a growing number of companies shut down as th...
Published: Mar 25, 2020 at 07:30 AM
After lengthy discussion on March 11 about proposed steps to be taken to protect wetlands and watercourses at a 3.07-acre site at 32 Berkshire Road (Route 34), where local developer James F. Walsh proposes the construction of a 14,000-square-foot ret...
Published: Mar 25, 2020 at 07:00 AM
On March 11, following discussion and review of an aquifer protection report submitted as part of a proposal to build a 14,000-square-foot retail building at 32 Berkshire Road (Route 34), Aquifer Protection Agency (APA) members decided that because t...
Updated: Mar 26, 2020 at 03:56 PM
The number of positive coronavirus cases in Newtown increased from one to five as of Tuesday, March 24, according to Health District Director Donna Culbert.
Culbert said she is also monitoring the first positive case in neighboring Bridgewater, whic...
Published: Mar 24, 2020 at 02:30 PM
To the Editor:
While most people may be in agreement that COVID-19 is a great equalizer in the human condition, i.e., that no matter our social status, gender, age, race, economic level, or belief system, each of us have an opportunity to face this c...
Published: Mar 24, 2020 at 02:20 PM
To the Editor:
Imagine a playground where not everyone has something to do. Kids with special needs don’t have enough to do. The special needs swing is too far from the other swings on the playground. Parents with multiple children need to be able to...
Published: Mar 24, 2020 at 02:15 PM
Jennifer Gorham Ober left this beautiful world on March 23, 2020. She was born on October 25, 1960, in Boston, Mass. She is survived by her parents, Barbara and Howard Gorham of Oxford, Conn., and her brothers, James Gorham and John Gorham. She was p...
Published: Mar 24, 2020 at 08:00 AM
After the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference (CIAC), on March 10, canceled remaining winter sports tournament games, coaches and athletes were understandably upset, but the initial reaction and week-later retrospective view of the situat...
Updated: Mar 23, 2020 at 08:50 PM
UPDATED: This report was updated March 23 at 8:50 pm to add new information about the Governor's ordered extended school closings and further postponement of the Legislative session.
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Published: Mar 23, 2020 at 01:10 PM
Charles Paul “Chuck” Scheid died in Loleta, Calif., on March 15, 2020, at the age of 49. The cause of death was suicide. Charles dealt with mental health issues for a number of years. As best described by a friend, “He is now free of burdens we canno...
