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Published: Oct 27, 2018 at 08:00 AM
Trick-or-treating on Halloween usually creates a sense of wonder and excitement for children as they anticipate what they are about to receive from each home. However, for those with special dietary needs, the feeling can be hushed by the constant co...
Published: Oct 27, 2018 at 07:00 AM
Newtown students and educators took part in an October 20 to 21 Student Gun Violence Summit in Washington, DC, that led to the creation and ratification of a Students’ Bill of Rights for Safer Communities. Newtown Federation of Teachers President Tom...
Published: Oct 27, 2018 at 07:00 AM
On October 19, the Connecticut Department of Public Health (DPH) reported its first death from flu this season, which was in a patient over the age of 65.
Flu activity has been slowly increasing since the end of August, and by October 23, the state D...
Published: Oct 27, 2018 at 07:00 AM
The Board of Education celebrated Newtown High School’s new Sit With Us program, which is designed to partner students with new lunch mates, at its meeting on October 16.
The program started near the beginning of the school year. NHS parent and Hawle...
Published: Oct 27, 2018 at 07:00 AM
Reed Intermediate School students faced off for the second year in a row in a week-long Color Games event, October 8 to 12, and a culminating evening event on October 12 filled the school with students wearing blue and green.
Both fifth and sixth gra...
Updated: Oct 28, 2018 at 02:24 PM
Receiving national recognition this month is the Newtown Forest Association (NFA), a local private land trust protecting more than 1,400 acres in town.
On October 11, NFA members traveled to Pittsburg, Penn., where they received a National Land Trust...
Updated: Nov 01, 2018 at 11:53 PM
Beginning with the opening kickoff, Newtown High School’s football team showed Bunnell that it was turning the tables on the Bulldogs following last year’s Bunnell blowout victory between the South-West Conference rivals.
Tucker Garrity ran the openi...
Updated: Oct 26, 2018 at 11:01 PM
Newtown High School’s girls’ and boys’ soccer teams both won their South-West Conference tournament quarterfinal-round games, at Blue & Gold Stadium, on October 26.
The fourth-seeded boys avenged a regular-season loss to Notre Dame-Fairfield with a 1...
Published: Oct 26, 2018 at 05:30 PM
To the Editor:
What is the definition of insanity? Doing the same thing over and over but expecting different results.
Over the last eight years, Governor Malloy expanded taxes while growing deficits year after year.
As the rest of the United States ...
Published: Oct 26, 2018 at 04:10 PM
On Sunday, October 28, at 3 pm, the pianist Dr Konstantza Chernov will perform a benefit concert for Newtown Meeting House, at the historic building, 31 Main Street. Admission is $10, payable at the door.
Pianist Konstantza Chernov was born in Sófia,...
