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Published: Feb 07, 2017 at 12:00 AM
Outside entertainment coming to town was a big event in the small Minnesota town in which I grew up. So, when a tiny circus set up tents at the outskirts of the village, my 4-year-old self was beside myself with excitement. It was a big evening out w...
Published: Feb 07, 2017 at 12:00 AM
Zygmunt P. Olbrys, Jr, 74, former science teacher and coach at Newtown High School, died at his Florida home on February 4 after a battle with cancer. He was born in New London, Conn., on October 29, 1942, the oldest son of Betty Donnelly and Zygmunt...
Published: Feb 07, 2017 at 12:00 AM
Newtown Public Schools will have a two hour delay on Tuesday, February 7, due to the weather.
The announcement was made Tuesday morning.
Published: Feb 07, 2017 at 12:00 AM
Joan McCarthy Yuknek, 82, of Sandy Hook died February 6. She was born June 4, 1934.
Her sister, Margaret Conlan, and her husband, Mortimer, of Oxford; her sister-in-law, Jean Kostro of Trumbull; her two brothers-in-law, Michael Yuknek of Swarthmore, ...
Published: Feb 06, 2017 at 12:00 AM
On the heels of a new report from the Connecticut Conference of Municipalities (CCM), Governor Dannel P. Malloy announced January 31 that the state budget proposal he will release next week includes substantial state mandate relief for towns and citi...
Published: Feb 06, 2017 at 12:00 AM
R. Lynn Helsel Wade, 66, of Kingston, N.Y., and formerly of Newtown, died peacefully January 25 in the presence of her husband, son, and daughter. Her courageous battle with vascular disease was a 25-year fight that she never gave up. She was the dau...
Published: Feb 06, 2017 at 12:00 AM
Newtown Continuing Education has announced its Spring 2017 Brochure is being mailed to local homes, and its spring classes begin as early as March 2. Copies of the brochure are also available at Newtown Municipal Center, 3 Primrose Street, and C. H. ...
Published: Feb 06, 2017 at 12:00 AM
Local women are invited to join the Working Women's Forum on Wednesday, February 15, when Dr Lisa Freed will present "Women and Heart Disease: How are Women Different?"
Heart disease is the number one killer of women, causing one in three deaths each...
Published: Feb 06, 2017 at 12:00 AM
Robert "Bob" James Mandulak, 70, of Sandy Hook died unexpectedly February 5. He was born in Bridgeport on January 29, 1947.
He was a graduate of Bullard-Havens Technical High School and went on to be a master carpenter and contractor for more than 40...
Published: Feb 05, 2017 at 12:00 AM
Distance runners, sprinters, hurdlers, jumpers, and throwers showed their stuff at the South-West Conference track and field championships, at New Haven's Floyd Little Athletic Center, on February 4. Among the standouts were many athletes from Newtow...
