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Published: Jul 16, 2017 at 12:00 AM
The Pony Express was a short-lived mail service that emerged in the 19th Century just before the Civil War as a way to unify a growing nation that now included California. The original name - The Central Overland California & Pikes Peak Express Compa...
Published: Jul 16, 2017 at 12:00 AM
A large contingent from Newtown and the area representing the team Tribe Mud For Brains - 31 people in fact - showed strength, endurance, mental and physical toughness, as well as plenty of support for each other in the New England Tough Mudder, at M...
Published: Jul 16, 2017 at 12:00 AM
On any given day, or night, at Newtown resident Alyce Kallman's Cream & Sugar Cafe on the Barnum Green in downtown Bethel, patrons are freaking out - then freaking in to immerse themselves in what the inventive restaurateur refers to as "freak shakes...
Published: Jul 15, 2017 at 12:00 AM
The following students made the High Honor Roll and Honor Roll for the fourth quarter marking period at Newtown High School for the 2016-17 school year. The honor roll listings were recently released by the school for publication.Twelfth Grade High H...
Published: Jul 15, 2017 at 12:00 AM
BRIDGEPORT - In US District Court on July 5, Raymond J. Martin, 50, of Easton, a former Easton Police Commission member, was sentenced by US Magistrate Judge Holly B. Fitzsimmons to three years of probation and a $10,000 fine for his role in steroid ...
Published: Jul 15, 2017 at 12:00 AM
The U13 Prime Time club lacrosse team, which is coached by Newtown's Scott Bulkley, and includes his son, Jake, a long stick middie, qualified for the World Series of Youth Lacrosse, in Denver, in early July. Prime Time made it all the way to the cha...
Published: Jul 15, 2017 at 12:00 AM
At just 9 years old, Sammy Lopata is launching his own business - and is filing the official paperwork to prove it. His company produces healthy snacks called "Coco-Yums" and is on the fast track to rival competing brands in the market.
Having lived ...
Published: Jul 15, 2017 at 12:00 AM
Following lengthy discussion at a July 6 Planning and Zoning Commission (P&Z) public hearing, P&Z members unanimously approved a special zoning permit for the construction of a child day care center at 2 Saw Mill Road in Hawleyville, which would serv...
Published: Jul 15, 2017 at 12:00 AM
A group of Toddy Hill Road area residents has hired a civil engineer who is challenging the technical design of a proposed 11-lot residential subdivision known as Turkey Ridge. The site is a 28.5-acre property on the corner of Toddy Hill Road and Tur...
Published: Jul 15, 2017 at 12:00 AM
Members of the Inland Wetlands Commission (IWC) learned at their July 12 meeting that a proposal to construct a 440-foot-long roadway through a swampy area west of Edmond Road has been withdrawn by the applicant.
IWC Chairman Sharon Salling announced...
