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Published: Jun 21, 2019 at 07:00 AM
For the second year in a row, Newtown High School students earned top marks for a creation while attending the EdAdvance Skills21 Expo Fest at the Oakdale Theatre in Wallingford, held on June 1 this year.
According to its website, skills21.org/expofe...
Published: Jun 21, 2019 at 07:00 AM
The public was invited to meet with [naviga:u]Newtown resident and author Lisa Yu[/naviga:u] to get copies of her new book “My Daddy Is A Firefighter” signed at Main Street Adventures, 123 South Main Street, on June 15.
The author meet-and-greet was ...
Published: Jun 21, 2019 at 07:00 AM
“Oh, the buzzin’ of the bees in the cigarette trees,” go the lyrics to Burl Ives’ version of the paean to a hobo utopia, “Big Rock Candy Mountain.”
Newtown Historical Society can’t promise utopia for anyone, hobo or otherwise, but there will be plent...
Published: Jun 21, 2019 at 07:00 AM
As “Pomp and Circumstance” played over the loudspeaker at Sandy Hook Elementary School on June 12, Newtown High School 2019 graduates walked the main hallway at Sandy Hook Elementary School, their former alma mater.
Elementary students stretched thei...
Published: Jun 21, 2019 at 06:00 AM
Town Players of Newtown has scheduled auditions for its first musical, Is There Life After High School?, which the community theater group is planning to present in the autumn.
Written by Jeffrey Kindley and to be directed by Brian DeToma, the produc...
Updated: Dec 23, 2019 at 03:40 PM
Nearly two months after her home was destroyed in an overnight fire, Lori Stevens is still seeing family and friends step up with offers to help her rebuild.
This weekend, the public is invited to an all-ages event being planned to take place at Reve...
Updated: Jun 25, 2019 at 12:09 PM
Residents are reminded that First Selectman Daniel Rosenthal has launched a new program that has him walking and talking with constituents on a regular basis.
Walk & Talk with The First Selectman was [naviga:u]launched last month[/naviga:u]. Mr Rosen...
Updated: Nov 04, 2019 at 08:57 AM
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Motorist James Marino, 42, of Sandy Hook, who was driving a 2018 Kia Optima sedan eastward near 31 Berkshire Road at about 2:26 pm on June 18, was preparing to make a turn into a driveway, when the Kia was struck from behind by motori...
Published: Jun 20, 2019 at 05:00 PM
July 8, 1994
The bigger they are, the harder they fall. Tens of millions of Americans spent a good part of their week watching the hard fall of O.J. Simpson on television. Astonishingly, television network news executives decided that a court he...
Published: Jun 20, 2019 at 04:30 PM
The April-June 2019 edition of The Rooster’s Crow, the official newsletter of the Newtown Historical Society, contains an essay by Town Historian Dan Cruson, “Losing Newtown’s Past: Musings of an Aging Town Historian.” In it, Mr Cruson, who is one of...
