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Newtown High School's golf results from this past week are as follows: The girls defeated Notre Dame-Fairfield 245-251 at Newtown Country Club on April 3. Gigi Marino shot a 61, Abby Watson 62, Cailin Wilson 60, and Kendal Reed 62. Coach Jeremy O'Con...

Newtown High School's tennis teams took on Pomperaug of Southbury and Weston, two of the top teams in the South-West Conference, this past week. The girls fell 5-2 to visiting Pomperaug on April 4. Top singles player Marie Ann Tomaj won her match 6-3...

Newtown High School’s boys’ volleyball team carried a 5-0 mark into Wednesday’s visit to Masuk of Monroe. A big part of the continued success of the Nighthawks, undefeated last regular season on the way to a South-West Conference championship, is the...

Defense and goaltending have stood out for Newtown High School’s girls’ lacrosse team in the early going. The Nighthawks, coming off a 4-3 win over Joel Barlow of Redding in the season opener, scored a 15-6 triumph over visiting New Milford at Blue &...

A few days after seeing a come-from-behind effort come up just short against always tough nonconference foe St Joseph of Trumbull, Newtown High School’s softball team rallied to defeat another FCIAC opponent, Ridgefield, 11-8 at home on April 6. The ...

The maker of the rifle used in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting intends to ask the US Supreme Court to hear its appeal of a Connecticut court ruling that reinstated a wrongful death lawsuit against the company that had been filed by victims’...

To the Editor: Thank you to everyone who attended, participated, or helped with Sunday’s fourth Risk A Verse poetry event — Newtown’s annual celebration where we invite non-poets to share a few lines of verse. Our group of readers surprised us at eve...

To the Editor: On April 7, Newtown Pollinator Pathways suggested that we make our town safe for bees and other pollinators so necessary for plants. Fish and birds also rely on these insects. At least six brochures have arrived in my mailbox from exte...

To the Editor: I’d like to thank Daniel Dicker for his letter “Turbulence On Twitter Tanks Stocks” and for analyzing how twitter can have financial impacts, in this case on the Tesla stock price. Twitter, Facebook, and other electronic apps are very ...

To the Editor: It’s getting hard to have any confidence in our elected boards these days. We’re told to support the budget because we spend near the midpoint in our DRG (peer group). I guess that means despite spending well over twice the rate of inf...