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Updated: Oct 31, 2024 at 12:24 PM
Peter (“Pete”) Joseph Blomberg, 72, of Newtown, passed away unexpectedly on October 28, 2024. Chief Blomberg was en route to the annual Newtown Board of Fire Commissioners meeting in Sandy Hook when he was struck by a vehicle and succumbed to his inj...
Published: Oct 31, 2024 at 08:17 AM
Daniel (Dan) Scott Krauss passed away peacefully and surrounded by his family at Regional Hospice of Western Connecticut on October 28, 2024, following a long battle with complications from congestive heart failure.
Born on October 2, 1975, to Albert...
Published: Oct 31, 2024 at 07:05 AM
The October 27 Newtown Bridle Lands Association’s (NBLA) Frost on the Pumpkin Hunter Pace, held on Mount Nebo Road, was a total success, according to participants and organizers alike. There was actually a light touch of frost on the pumpkins as dawn...
Published: Oct 31, 2024 at 07:00 AM
Ghosts, goblins, witches, dinosaurs, firefighters, princesses (you name it) were on hand trunk-or-treating and getting into the spirit in advance of Halloween at the Children’s Adventure Center’s (CAC) Boo Fest, held the evening of October 24. Everyo...
Updated: Oct 30, 2024 at 05:23 PM
Today I lost my best friend. It was a day I never expected. If I have to find any solace in it, I was with him when he went peacefully.
He passed, suddenly, in his favorite place — his mom’s rocking chair. Bill or Papa, as he was better known, was bo...
Published: Oct 30, 2024 at 08:00 AM
Connecticut State Police held an interactive Social Media Awareness event open to all Newtown parents and guardians at Newtown Middle School’s auditorium on Tuesday, October 15. Trooper First Class James White led the presentation and covered the dif...
Updated: Oct 30, 2024 at 08:22 AM
Family: my parents, Mike and Deb; sister Kate, brother-in-law David, and niece and nephew Jamie and Zach.
Do you have any nicknames? Oz.
Pets? Just a couple (laughs). I have three dogs — Charlie, Seamus and Zinnia; and we have 30-some-odd...
Updated: Oct 30, 2024 at 10:03 AM
Over 300 joined together to do the time warp again for Edmond Town Hall’s screening of The Rocky Horror Picture Show featuring a live shadow cast performance on October 19. There was also a screening of the movie, without a shadow cast, the previous ...
Updated: Nov 25, 2024 at 09:06 AM
Name: Jenna Visca
Position: Education Reporter
Duties: I cover education news all over Newtown, whether it’s in the schools, at Board of Education meetings, events at C.H. Booth Library, and beyond. Other than that, I write general news s...
Published: Oct 30, 2024 at 07:00 AM
Pregnancy can be a beautiful time in a woman’s life, but for some mothers, it can be marked with loss and insurmountable grief. October 15 was declared National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Day by the Rosenthal administration in 2018 here in Newtown. Ka...
