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Published: May 30, 2017 at 12:00 AM
Huston Hamilton "Ham" Cobb Brosious, 93, of Oxford and formerly of Newtown for more than 20 years, died May 25, after a very brief illness. Born April 12, 1924, in Philadelphia to Barbara Lee Milligan and Eugene Warren Cobb, he was raised in Sunbury,...
Published: May 30, 2017 at 12:00 AM
James "Jim" Boughton, 97, formerly of Newtown, died May 26. He was born on the cusp of the Roaring Twenties in December of 1919, in New York City. His father James P. was a dynamo tender for Macy's and his mother Mary Alice Grady had worked for John ...
Published: May 30, 2017 at 12:00 AM
Friends of Newtown Seniors (FONS) and Newtown Commission on Aging continue to collaborate to bring high-quality events and activities to seniors in Newtown.
Britt Soden of Connecticut Krav Maga will present six classes of "Krav Maga for Seniors," beg...
Published: May 30, 2017 at 12:00 AM
A 64-year-old male pedestrian was killed Tuesday morning due to injuries he received when hit by a traveling vehicle at an Interstate 84 off-ramp, state police said.
Deceased is Gerard M. Mauskapf of Red Hook, Dutchess County, N.Y.
State police said ...
Published: May 29, 2017 at 12:00 AM
"Newtown remembers with grateful prayers and solemn vows her sacred dead [and] her honored living…" reads the dedication on the Liberty and Peace monument, often referred to as the Soldiers and Sailors Monument at the head of Main Street.
As rain bro...
Published: May 28, 2017 at 12:00 AM
On Friday, May 19, three students from West Scranton Intermediate School in Pennsylvania presented Sandy Hook Promise (SHP) with a $1,500 donation.US Gun Violence: A Complicated Puzzle, focused on gun violence prevention. It opens with the trio stand...
Published: May 28, 2017 at 12:00 AM
Following brief discussion at a Legislative Council meeting May 17, Chair Mary Ann Jacob said her panel voted unanimously to set the 2017-18 mill rate at 33.87 on the 2016 grand list for fiscal year 2017-18, except for motor vehicles.
A mill equals o...
Published: May 28, 2017 at 12:00 AM
Like many of his fellow Texans whose interests turned toward oil versus music, renowned guitarist and composer Eric Johnson didn't let his first outing as a recording artist get him down when he hit an unproductive well.
According to several biograph...
Published: May 28, 2017 at 12:00 AM
NEW HAVEN - The first documentary film ever produced about the nationally renowned landscape architect Beatrix Farrand, by Newtown native and six-time Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Karyl K. Evans, will premiere locally at the New Haven Documentary Fil...
Published: May 28, 2017 at 12:00 AM
Why take a student out of the Newtown Middle School to visit a physician or walk-in clinic if they can get the same (or better) care right down the hall? And where can a NMS student turn if they are experiencing an anxiety attack, depression, stress,...
