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Updated: Oct 12, 2018 at 12:54 PM
With sixth grade students in Michelle Vaccaro and Courtney Martin’s cluster seated before him, district parent and local author Matt Tullis discussed writing and his recently published book, Running With Ghosts: A Memoir of Surviving Childhood Cancer...
Published: Oct 12, 2018 at 07:00 AM
The Newtown Special Education Parent Teacher Organization (SEPTO) has scheduled its first meeting of the year for Thursday, October 18, in the Newtown High School Lecture Hall, 12 Berkshire Road, at 7 pm.
Newtown SEPTO’s goal is to support families b...
Published: Oct 12, 2018 at 07:00 AM
Readers of a certain generation remember traveling to New York City in 1964 and 1965 in order to see the World’s Fair in Flushing Meadows.
For those who missed the opportunity, or simply want to relive it, Newtown Historical Society, in conjunction w...
Published: Oct 12, 2018 at 07:00 AM
There was a crowd at Newtown Day this past weekend to enjoy the food trucks, beer garden, vendors, and bounce houses — not to mention admiring Hawleyville Volunteer Fire and Rescue’s newest piece of apparatus — but the local fun is not yet over. Look...
Published: Oct 12, 2018 at 07:00 AM
Following a full day of rehearsal, the Newtown High School Marching Band and Guard performed at Bunnell High School in Stratford on October 6. The group scored 91.175 to place first in Group IV Open.
Newtown’s show, “The Climb,” is a combination of m...
Published: Oct 12, 2018 at 07:00 AM
Occupation: I am a director of IT for Danone North America. I’ve been there for three years and have more than 15 years of experience in the IT field. I started from the ground up. I was a program developer, an assistant analyst, and did help des...
Updated: Oct 12, 2018 at 08:05 AM
Three of the town’s five volunteer fire companies — Dodgingtown, Botsford, and Sandy Hook — have taken delivery of new fire tankers to replace some aging tankers in their organizations.
The three trucks, which contain large internal water tanks for f...
Updated: Oct 12, 2018 at 08:07 AM
Planning & Zoning Commission (P&Z) members at an October 4 public hearing again considered the commission’s proposal to create zoning rules that would provide a regulatory mechanism for allowing eateries at shopping centers to have drive-through wind...
Updated: Oct 12, 2018 at 08:46 AM
The dispatchers at the Newtown Emergency Communications Center at Town Hall South, 3 Main Street, report the following fire calls and the responders:
Thursday, October 4: 11:51 am, burning odor indoors, 70 Hawleyville Road, Hawleyville and Hook &...
Published: Oct 11, 2018 at 04:30 PM
It is easy to be apathetic in a political environment that seethes with distrust and mind-numbing accusations. Politics at a more local level are far less inflammatory, though, and decisions made by the town and state officials are more directly felt...
