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Published: Nov 14, 2016 at 12:00 AM
To the Editor:
I write this as we wait for the results of the election.
I have two complaints about how this election has been conducted.
First, it is wrong for a sitting president to campaign for a candidate. I can remember elections going back to E...
Published: Nov 14, 2016 at 12:00 AM
To the Editor:
I would like to extend my sincerest "thank you" to those wonderful young adults and the members of the staff that volunteered to honor the veterans with a breakfast on Veterans Day. The fact that they were gracious enough to listen to ...
Published: Nov 14, 2016 at 12:00 AM
On Thanksgiving Day 1976, The Band hosted their farewell concert at San Francisco's Winterland Ballroom. Attendees were kept in the dark as to how the evening would unfold, but everyone knew it would be unforgettable.
With Director Martin Scorsese's ...
Published: Nov 14, 2016 at 12:00 AM
Bettina Fogge (Sullivan) Dobbs, 95, formerly of Newtown, Cushing, Maine, and Rockland, Maine, died peacefully in Cushing on November 13. She was born in Natick, Mass., on May 30, 1921, the daughter of the late William James Sullivan and the late Ethe...
Published: Nov 14, 2016 at 12:00 AM
Veterans were invited and honored at ceremonies and events across the school district on Friday, November 11, for Veterans Day. Schools hosted breakfasts, some students presented handmade gifts to the visitors, and at one school veterans received hig...
Published: Nov 14, 2016 at 12:00 AM
A stubbornly smoldering wood chip fire caused by spontaneous combustion, which burned for the better part of a week at the town landfill at Ethan Allen Road, was finally put out, after a large pile of wood residue that had caught fire was physically ...
Published: Nov 14, 2016 at 12:00 AM
To the Editor:
On Friday, Veterans Day, Head O' Meadow School had its annual breakfast for students and friends or relatives of the students who are veterans. The day starts with everyone in the school saying the Pledge of Allegiance outside by the f...
Published: Nov 14, 2016 at 12:00 AM
On the day he turned age 16, nearly 52 years ago, Bill Halstead immediately joined the Sandy Hook Volunteer Fire & Rescue Company and has been immersed in the world of firefighting ever since, First Selectman Pat Llodra noted this week, reflecting on...
Published: Nov 14, 2016 at 12:00 AM
Following promotional interviews with the police department's three lieutenants, the Police Commission on November 8 named Lieutenant Christopher Vanghele, 46, to become the department's new captain.
Mr Vanghele joined the police department in June 1...
Published: Nov 14, 2016 at 12:00 AM
John "Jack" Gloria, 85, died peacefully November 9, at his Pomperaug Woods home. Born in Philadelphia, on December 27, 1930, to Filomena and Umberto Gloria, he lived most of his adult life in Newtown.
In addition to his wife, Peggy (Gorrell), his sev...
