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Published: Jan 07, 2016 at 12:00 AM
The radio dispatchers at the Newtown Emergency Communications Center at Town Hall South, 3 Main Street, report the following fire calls and the responders:
Wednesday, December 30: 9:20 am, alarm, 5 Queen Street, Hook & Ladder and Sandy Hook respo...
Published: Jan 07, 2016 at 12:00 AM
Superintendent of Schools Joseph V. Erardi, Jr, presented a budget plan for the 2016-17 fiscal year to the Board of Education on Tuesday, January 5. The proposal reflects a 3.87 percent increase in spending.
Driving the increase, Dr Erardi later told...
Published: Jan 06, 2016 at 12:00 AM
Is it possible to be pro-gun and pro-life? Is it possible for liberals and conservatives to discuss issues that divide America in a perfectly civil manner?
The organizer of a special program to take place this weekend at Newtown Congregational Church...
Published: Jan 06, 2016 at 12:00 AM
President Barack Obama’s announcements on his decision to take executive action to reduce gun violence in America, Tuesday, January 5, elicited comments from both sides of the issue.
Mark Barden, advocacy director for Sandy Hook Promise, a Newtown or...
Published: Jan 06, 2016 at 12:00 AM
Newtown Choral Society will perform its 2016 winter concert, “Songs of Reflection and Celebration,” on Sunday, January 17, at 3:30 pm, at Newtown Meeting House, 31 Main Street.
The concert, which was postponed from its original December date, will in...
Published: Jan 06, 2016 at 12:00 AM
BOCA RATON (AP) — A Florida college has officially fired a professor who claimed the massacre of children at a Connecticut elementary school was staged.
Florida Atlantic University said in a release that School of Communication and Multimedia Studies...
Published: Jan 06, 2016 at 12:00 AM
To the Editor:
Music is the universal language of mankind. – Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Families United in Newtown (F.U.N.), a community recreational program for families in our area with special needs children (created in memory of Tyler J...
Published: Jan 06, 2016 at 12:00 AM
A sometimes defiant, sometimes scolding, and, at times, tearful President Barack Obama, flanked by survivors of gun violence, addressed the nation in a televised event Tuesday morning, January 5, to announce executive actions he planned to take to re...
Published: Jan 06, 2016 at 12:00 AM
Newtown High School’s wrestling team defeated visiting Stratford 63-6, on January 6. The Nighthawks won five matches via pinfall, two by technical fall, and three in decisions. There were a trio of forfeits – two won by Newtown and a double forfeit –...
Published: Jan 06, 2016 at 12:00 AM
Newtown High School’s boys’ swimming and diving and girls’ basketball teams both posted victories on January 5. The swim team earned an 89-40 triumph over the host Bunnell-Stratford co-op team, at Flood Middle School in Stratford. The basketball team...
