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Published: Aug 28, 2016 at 12:00 AM
Newtown Public Schools educators and staff gathered in the Newtown High School gymnasium on Wednesday, August 24, for a convocation to start the 2016-17 school year, ahead of the first day of school on August 29.This article has been updated to refle...
Published: Aug 28, 2016 at 12:00 AM
Campers in the Newtown Youth Wrestling Summer Camp - which ran from August 15, to August 19, at NYA Sports & Fitness - spent roughly half the week learning wrestling lessons and life tips from former Olympian Rulon Gardner, who earned a gold medal in...
Published: Aug 28, 2016 at 12:00 AM
With a variety of performances and special events planned, the fifth annual Newtown Arts Festival, sponsored by Newtown Cultural Arts Commission, will offer an events roster that will stretch from September 1 through October 1.
Terry Sagedy, chairman...
Published: Aug 27, 2016 at 12:00 AM
Newtown High School senior Clint Stergue said he learned about "a project behind Hawley [Elementary] School," last school year, while thinking of a potential Eagle Scout Project.
Clint was interested, so he began the process of completing paperwork, ...
Published: Aug 27, 2016 at 12:00 AM
Seth Willis doesn't get the taste of glory running backs, quarterbacks, and receivers have during football season. But the Newtown High School offensive tackle, who is heading into his senior year, certainly hasn't been overlooked.
Far from it. Then ...
Published: Aug 27, 2016 at 12:00 AM
The Sandy Hook Elementary School building project, which was completed with a $50 million grant from the State of Connecticut, could return in excess of $1 million back to state taxpayers as construction draws to a close ahead of the facility's offic...
Published: Aug 27, 2016 at 12:00 AM
For the past 54 years, Dr Robert Grossman has found himself at The Pleasance on Labor Day, joining fellow Rotary Club of Newtown members to sell hot dogs and soda to the crowds of people lining nearby streets for the town's annual parade.
This year, ...
Updated: Apr 04, 2022 at 12:54 PM
Many people fondly remember "Coach" Harold DeGroat and swimming lessons at Curtis Pond.
Evelyn (Weber) Watts was the first to recognize Coach DeGroat in the August 19, 2016 presentation of The Way Were Were. Pictured in that week's feature image are ...
Published: Aug 26, 2016 at 12:00 AM
To the Editor:
[Re: Erin Birden's letter of August 15, "Needed: Mathematically Literate Adults"] I, too, hope that our students' curiosity and drive to learn will be stimulated by the pursuit of numerical reasoning and mathematics. But, I struggle to...
Published: Aug 26, 2016 at 12:00 AM
Newtown Hook & Ladder volunteer firefighters plan to mark a long-awaited move from their 1929 firehouse at 45 Main Street to their new firehouse at 12 Church Hill Road with a procession of firefighters, fire vehicles, and antique fire apparatus on Fr...
