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Published: Oct 11, 2018 at 09:50 AM
With a mixed vote at its meeting on October 2, the Board of Education approved amending its contract with All-Star Transportation to allow the remaining diesel buses in the company’s Newtown fleet to be replaced with propane buses in the third year o...
Updated: Oct 11, 2018 at 09:44 AM
After deliberating wording, the Board of Education approved its 2019-20 budget assumptions and priorities at its meeting on October 2.
As approved, the school board’s 2019-20 assumptions read “The Newtown Board of Education’s mission to inspire every...
Updated: Oct 11, 2018 at 10:04 AM
Newtown High School will host a Veterans Day celebration on Friday, November 9.
All local veterans are invited to attend the event, which is being co-hosted by American Legion Post 202.
A complimentary luncheon, prepared by Newtown High School Culina...
Published: Oct 11, 2018 at 08:53 AM
Geraldine Margaret (Bailey) Brewster, 89, of Newtown, died October 7, in Baltimore, Md. She was born in Kingston, N.Y., May 9, 1929, and was the daughter of Geraldine (Kiernan) and Aloysius Bailey.
Mrs Brewster was a longtime employee of DuPont Sorva...
Updated: Oct 11, 2018 at 09:21 AM
The Town Players of Newtown have hit the golf equivalent of a home run.
The current production of Ken Ludwig’s The Fox on the Fairway is a hole in one! Director Gene Golaszewski has motivated his fine cast into a farcical frenzy with a happy ending. ...
Published: Oct 10, 2018 at 06:01 PM
To the Editor:
Honestly, I like Tony Hwang as much as the next person. What’s not to like about such a happy man who is personally willing to help others when needed? In the political sense, that persona is really working for him. He received about 6...
Published: Oct 10, 2018 at 06:00 PM
To the Editor:
Americans are contemplating what voters will decide in the midterm election with respect to the election of a new Congress and the election of a new governor in Connecticut as well as local representatives. As we listen and watch the n...
Updated: Oct 10, 2018 at 04:05 PM
Two late-game free kicks led to both goals as Newtown High School’s girls’ soccer team came back from a 1-0 halftime deficit to defeat visiting Immaculate of Danbury 2-1 at Blue & Gold Stadium on October 9, in a rematch of last year’s South-West Conf...
Published: Oct 10, 2018 at 04:00 PM
According to the schedule, Newtown High School’s boys’ soccer team had two of its tougher tests just after the calendar turned to October. Based on the results, a pair of 1-0 wins over tough South-West Conference teams Joel Barlow of Redding on Octob...
Updated: Oct 12, 2018 at 08:59 AM
HARTFORD — Governor Dannel P. Malloy announced October 10 that the US Small Business Administration (SBA) has approved his request for disaster assistance resulting from the May 15 tornadoes and severe storms that impacted portions of Connecticut. Th...
