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Published: Aug 30, 2025 at 07:00 AM
Back to school season kicked off in a big way last week at Newtown Middle School (NMS).
NMS PTA members treated staff to a special luncheon on August 21. The school’s administrators and staff also celebrated incoming seventh graders with a student wa...
Updated: Sep 04, 2025 at 03:03 PM
The Legislative Council at its August 20 meeting discussed enforcement of ordinances and various aspects of refuse disposal.
Regarding refuse, while giving a committee report on the activities of the Recycling Joint Committee, Councilman Laura Miller...
Updated: Aug 30, 2025 at 07:59 AM
Bill Guider, the public relations manager and intern coordinator for the Danbury Westerners collegiate summer baseball team, brought on Newtown’s Veronica Rodriguez Castro, Sean Kaufmann and Charlotte Miller as interns, allowing them to gain real wor...
Updated: Aug 30, 2025 at 07:51 AM
Speed and substitutions will be the name of the game for the Newtown High School boys’ soccer team. The Nighthawks have plenty of depth and Coach Ryan Lyddy plans to utilize his bench to keep legs fresh and opponents on their heels this fall.
“The te...
Published: Aug 29, 2025 at 04:00 PM
September 1, 2000
HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER of Lorraine VanderWende
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EDITORIAL INK DROPS —THE LABOR DAY PARADE: If a town could have a stream of consciousness, Newtown’s would look a lot like the Labor Day Parade. If you are among the thousand...
Published: Aug 29, 2025 at 08:00 AM
It’s back to school time, and we started to feel that last week when we said farewell to the second of our two summer 2025 interns. Leah Laughlin, now a senior at Newtown High School, finished her time with us a few weeks ago when she filed her final...
Published: Aug 29, 2025 at 07:45 AM
WESTPORT — Governor Ned Lamont and Lt. Governor Susan Bysiewicz are inviting members of the public to attend the State of Connecticut’s annual 9/11 Memorial Ceremony, honoring and celebrating the lives of those killed in the September 11, 2001, terro...
Published: Aug 29, 2025 at 07:30 AM
A three-vehicle crash near the end of last Friday morning’s rush hour closed a major roadway for approximately 90 minutes and sent three people to the hospital.
Newtown Police report a 2011 Honda CRV EX-L being operated by Rosilane G. R. Carrijo, 34,...
Published: Aug 29, 2025 at 07:30 AM
Due to ongoing work on replacing the historic roof of Trinity Episcopal Church, the driveway and building will be closed during the Labor Day Parade on Monday, September 1.
A storage container will be parked in one of the parking spots behind the rea...
Updated: Aug 29, 2025 at 08:57 AM
Hundreds of students disembarked from their buses and walked through school doors on Monday, August 25, the first day of the new school year.
As of that morning, 3,893 students had been registered in Newtown Public Schools for the 2025-26 academic y...
