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Former Member Returns To Police Commission

Published: Aug 09, 2016 at 12:00 AM
The Police Commission has welcomed back a former member to again serve on the agency in view of a vacancy created by a member's recent untimely death. Police Commission Chairman Joel Faxon said August 2 that Virgil Procaccini, Jr, would again serve a...

Verne C. Leavenworth

Published: Aug 09, 2016 at 12:00 AM
Verne Leavenworth, 76, of New Preston, died peacefully at home with her family at her side, on August 6. She was the widow of Ronald N. Leavenworth, who died September 20, 1993. She was born in Washington, Conn., January 18, 1940, and was the daughte...

Treadwell Park Pool To Reopen This Morning

Published: Aug 09, 2016 at 12:00 AM
Following a brief closure, the pool at Treadwell Park is expected to be open for regular hours of operation today.had announced the temporary closure on Monday, August 8, due to an issue with electricity. Newtown Parks & Recreation Department The po...

Host Family Needed For NHS Mandarin Teacher

Published: Aug 09, 2016 at 12:00 AM
Newtown High School and the Newtown International Center for Education (NICE) are seeking a host family for Mandarin teacher Ning Ding (also known as "Patty").warde@newtown.k12.ct.us or by calling the high school at 203-426-7648. Ms Ding has been a p...

Amelia LoGrasso

Published: Aug 09, 2016 at 12:00 AM
Amelia (Emilia) LoGrasso, 99, died on August 8, at The Osborn in Rye, N.Y. She was born in The Bronx, N.Y., on July 2, 1917, to Filomena and Carl Pellitteri. She lived in Brooklyn and Flushing, N.Y., and for 51 years, in Manhasset, Long Island. Her t...

Most Successful Crutch Drive To Date

Published: Aug 09, 2016 at 12:00 AM
Jeremy Perillo, an Eagle Scout with Newtown Boy Scout Troop 42, recently completed his fourth annual Crutches 4 Kids Crutch Drive. Over the past three years his crutch drives have given the gift of mobility to more than 300 children through the nonpr...

Save The Date: Firehouse Ride September 24

Published: Aug 09, 2016 at 12:00 AM
The seventh annual Newtown Hook & Ladder Co. #1 Firehouse Ride, a fundraiser for one of Newtown's five volunteer fire companies, has been set for Saturday, September 24. A 50-mile motorcycle ride with blocked intersections, this year's route will hav...

An Artistic Garden Party

Published: Aug 08, 2016 at 12:00 AM
WOODBURY - Susan McLaughlin will be presenting a collection of "narrative paintings with a surrealist, romantic bent," she says, when "Garden Party" opens on August 9 at Good News Gallery.The Newtown Bee last week. "I combine elements...

Sandy Hook Center Perfect For Memorial
By John and Ginny Chion

Published: Aug 08, 2016 at 12:00 AM
To the Editor: I'd like to offer a thought concerning the Sandy Hook Memorial. Ginny and I are Sandy Hook residents for over 40 years and probably consider this as much our home town as anywhere else. We have experienced too many tragedies in that ti...

New Exhibition By Newtown Artist At Municipal Center

Published: Aug 08, 2016 at 12:00 AM
Just like he did in April, Joe Paccia spent a few hours quietly hanging his newest exhibition of works last week.on view for four weeks at C.H. Booth Library.The Newtown Bee that month that he preferred to just offer his works for the enjoyme...