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To the Editor: The local unit of the Salvation Army is having a Recognition Reception Saturday, November 10, at the Congregation Church in Newtown. The reception will take place from 9 to 11 am, and refreshments will be served. We are inviting all pa...

To the casual fan, or even a more educated soccer eye for that matter, Newtown High School’s boys’ soccer team may appear to be outplayed and over-matched — win or lose — in some games. But the Nighthawks are losing the ball control game, at times, b...

Patricia Mary Scharr, 71, of Danbury, died peacefully October 29, after a long illness. Her siblings, Grace Scharr McEnaney of Newtown; Margaret M. Sagarese; Frederick Scharr; and Joseph Scharr; and cherished friends survive her. Ms Scharr graduated ...

Violet Farkasdi Csengery, 91, of Newtown, died October 27. She was born in Hungary, January 20, 1927, and was the daughter of the late Sandor and Anna Majsa Farkasdi. She later came to the United States, where she met her late husband, Ernest Csenger...

Jean Elizabeth Chandler, 74, died October 24, at Glen Hill Nursing Center in Danbury. She was born July 29, 1944, in Philadelphia, Penn., and was the daughter of the late Robert and Elizabeth Robin McGhee. Ms Chandler worked most recently at JoAnn Fa...

This year marks the Ninth Annual Great Pumpkin Challenge on Main Street, which will become a hotbed of trick-or-treating on Halloween night. In 2010, Mackenzie Page of Main Street [naviga:u]started the event to raise money for the Hole In The Wall Ga...

Newtown High School’s girls’ volleyball team outlasted host Joel Barlow of Redding in a hard-fought five-game match on October 24, handing the six-time South-West Conference champion Falcons their first loss of the campaign in the process. The Nighth...

The third-seeded Newtown High School field hockey team dropped a hard-fought 2-1 decision to second-seeded and host Immaculate of Danbury in the South-West Conference Tournament semifinals, on October 29. Immaculate, which had been upset by Newtown i...

James David Rancourt, 66, died October 18, at Danbury Regional Hospice and Palliative Care Center, after battling pancreatic cancer for many years. He was born in Bridgeport on January 27, 1952, to Irene Macey Rancourt and Kenneth N. Rancourt. He gra...

State police said they have traced to Newtown an industrial vehicle they believe was involved in a fatal hit-and-run accident in Bridgeport on the night of October 25, in which a 54-year-old Bridgeport woman was killed. Pedestrian Maria Mendoza-Roble...