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Published: Jul 16, 2018 at 12:00 AM
"I'm Vanessa," said Vanessa Trien to the many children with their bright eyes turned to her Tuesday evening at Dickinson Park.
Stepping down off the band shell, she encouraged her young audience: "Maybe you could clap your hands?" Vanessa Trien and T...
Published: Jul 16, 2018 at 12:00 AM
SHERMAN - The lengths that parents will go to protect their children is on intense and exquisite display in The Sherman Playhouse production of Other Desert Cities, by playwright Jon Robin Baitz.
Posing as staunch, practicing, conservative members of...
Published: Jul 16, 2018 at 12:00 AM
BROOKFIELD - The Brookfield Theater for the Arts has undertaken a big, bold production of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd, a musical that fills the theater with an atmosphere of madness and brilliant music. This is a massive undertaking, which TBTA p...
Published: Jul 16, 2018 at 12:00 AM
Town Players of Newtown will begin performances of its new production this weekend.
Written by Tennessee Williams and being directed by Terry Polvay, Suddenly Last Summer will open at The Little Theatre on Friday, July 20, and continue weekends throu...
Published: Jul 15, 2018 at 12:00 AM
Dr Margaret "Peggy" Reed has been training dogs for decades, including here in Newtown, but now she is providing a learning experience to dog owners (or non-dog owners, for that matter) through her book The Dogs of Camelot: Stories of the Kennedy Can...
Published: Jul 14, 2018 at 12:00 AM
Public Building and Site Commission (PBSC) Chairman Robert Mitchell said he was excited to learn that the steel "bones" of the new community and senior center were going up Monday, July 9. As a former high altitude steel worker himself, Mr Mitchell s...
Published: Jul 14, 2018 at 12:00 AM
The final Sandy Hook 5K will take place on Saturday, July 21. The event begins at 8:15 am with staggered kids' fun runs and 9 am for the 5K.
The run for children ages 2-6 is a quarter mile, and the run for children ages 7 and up is a half mile. Child...
Published: Jul 14, 2018 at 12:00 AM
"Isn't this exciting?" exclaimed Community Center Committee Chairman Kinga Walsh, stepping from her car and pausing to stare at the bones of a new building rising from the concrete pad, which defines the footprint of the new community center and seni...
Published: Jul 14, 2018 at 12:00 AM
Newtown Continuing Education's SMART (Summer Music and Art) Camp began its summer classes on July 2 this year. The camp runs for two weeks, in two sessions. This year's second session will run from July 17 to 28.For more information about signing a s...
Published: Jul 14, 2018 at 12:00 AM
A small milky bloom that was discovered July 10 in a section of the Pootatuck River adjacent to Commerce Road was determined to be nontoxic and not harmful to the Class A trout stream, according to the Land Use Department's Deputy Director of Plannin...
