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Published: Sep 01, 2017 at 12:00 AM
This coming Monday, before throwing steaks on the barbecue, playing a pick-up game of Wiffle ball with the kids, or sinking into the luxury of a shaded hammock, thousands of people will populate Newtown's center of town for the annual Newtown Labor D...
Updated: Feb 29, 2024 at 10:43 AM
As self-appointed responders team with expanding organized efforts to help rescue and support residents in Houston and surrounding communities hardest hit by Hurricane — now tropical storm — Harvey, several former local residents checked in with The ...
Published: Sep 01, 2017 at 12:00 AM
Newtown Cultural Arts Commission (NCAC) Chair Laura Lerman announced September 1 that the deadline for arts organizations seeking to apply for 2017 grants has been extended.newtownartscommission.org/arts-community/grants-scholarships.
For its Sixth A...
Published: Aug 31, 2017 at 12:00 AM
Bernard G. McCutchan, 95, of Sandy Hook died peacefully August 29, at his home. He was born in Weston, W.Va., on June 22, 1922, a son of the late Sarah (Blagg) and George McCutchan.
Mr McCutchan was raised in Weston and was a graduate of West...
Published: Aug 31, 2017 at 12:00 AM
The fifth annual Newtown Yoga Festival, presented by The Avielle Foundation's Spark Project, welcomed nearly 300 yogis to the NYA Sports & Fitness Center on Saturday, August 26, from 9 am to 4 pm.
This year's event sought to focus on honoring strengt...
Published: Aug 31, 2017 at 12:00 AM
This story has been updated to reflect information received from Your Healthy Pet, extending the original Thursday deadline to Friday.
Your Healthy Pet, the pet supply store at 61 Church Hill Road, has announced it is collecting donations of pet...
Published: Aug 31, 2017 at 12:00 AM
"The discussion in front of us is not about value or merits of the Leaps of Faith," said First Selectman Pat Llodra, during an August 17 Board of Selectmen's meeting. The three selectmen and other officials all say "this is an extraordinarily valuabl...
Published: Aug 31, 2017 at 12:00 AM
Finding themselves at odds this year are town officials, LOF Adaptive Skiers operations, and neighbors in the vicinity of those operations. The Sandy Hook-based LOF Founder Joel Zeisler has been running his water ski clinics for the blind, disabled, ...
Published: Aug 31, 2017 at 12:00 AM
On Wednesday, September 13, forest pathologist Robert Marra, PhD, will begin the 2017-18 season of Town & Country Garden Club of Newtown with his presentation on plant pathogens, "Fungi of the Forest and Landscape: Friend or Foe."
Dr Marra currently ...
Published: Aug 31, 2017 at 12:00 AM
Newtown Police Department is looking this morning for an older model white or silver Jeep Grand Cherokee whose driver reportedly evaded an officer during a motor vehicle stop.
The vehicle, believed to be between model years 1999-2004, evaded a Newtow...
