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State Unit On Aging Hosts ‘Community Conversation’

Published: Jan 11, 2020 at 08:00 AM
The Newtown Senior Center, at 8 Simpson Street, was selected as the location for the State Unit on Aging’s “Community Conversation” event on the morning of Tuesday, January 7. The roughly hour-and-a-half-long discussion was led by Erin Soli, Departme...

Council Sends CIP Back To BOF To Approve ‘Debt Vacation’

Published: Jan 11, 2020 at 07:00 AM
The Legislative Council took action Wednesday, January 9, that if approved by finance officials, would clear the way for Newtown to go on a so-called “debt vacation” during the 2024-25 fiscal cycle. Nearly three hours in to a special meeting that eve...

Way We Were, Week Ending January 10

Published: Jan 10, 2020 at 12:00 PM
January 27, 1995 As he prepares his first state budget, Gov John Rowland has been playing his cards close to his chest. But his campaign promise to cut and eventually eliminate the income tax has implications that are easy to read. Last Week Newtown ...

Couple Displaced After Their Dodgingtown Home Damaged By Fire

Updated: Jan 10, 2020 at 10:24 AM
A single-family house on Brookwood Drive in Dodgingtown was damaged on Thursday, January 9, by an apparently accidental fire, which started while the two people who live there were away from home, according to Dodgingtown Volunteer Fire Company Chief...

CT Woolcrafters To Meet, Plan, And Trade

Published: Jan 10, 2020 at 08:05 AM
CT Woolcrafters, which launched early last year and has continued with monthly meetings at the town library, will host its first meeting of the new year next week. In 2019, CT Woolcrafters sponsored a World Wide Knit-In Public Event that was attended...

Support Groups

Published: Jan 10, 2020 at 08:00 AM
Friday, January 10 AA, Newtown United Methodist Church, 92 Church Hill Road, 8 pm, beginners meeting, open discussion. Saturday, January 11 AA, Daily Reflections group, St Rose parish house (upstairs), 38 Church Hill Road, 6:30 pm, one-hour...

LOF To Present TetraSki Demonstration

Updated: Jan 10, 2020 at 08:14 AM
PLANTSVILLE — LOF Adaptive Skiers will be at Mount Southington, 396 Mt Vernon Road in Plantsville, on Wednesday, January 15, at 9 am, demonstrating a brand-new TetraSki, the world’s only independent alpine ski for complex disabilities. The TetraSki i...

Snapshot: Lynne Farah

Published: Jan 10, 2020 at 08:00 AM
Occupation: I’ve been a hairdresser for 29 years. I worked at Ricci’s for 20 years and started there as a nail technician before becoming a hairdresser. I went to school at Americo Academy of Beauty in Danbury. I’m a people person, and I love get...

‘Hamilton: Misery, Money, And The Musical That Made Him Famous’

Published: Jan 10, 2020 at 08:00 AM
Alexander Hamilton, the figure who inspired the sensational Broadway smash hit, was a giant among this country’s Founding Fathers. His contributions to the early development of the United States as economist, statesman, legal scholar, politician, mil...

Toddy Hill Speed Control Critiqued By Residents

Published: Jan 10, 2020 at 07:30 AM
Several Toddy Hill Road area residents who have been attending Police Commission meetings since mid-2017 in seeking better control over vehicular speeding on that north-south town road linking Sandy Hook to Botsford, are now asking the commission to ...