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Published: Nov 12, 2015 at 12:00 AM
Newtown High School students have been busy working to prepare for the school’s fall drama, The Great Gatsby, which will be presented on the school’s stage Thursday through Sunday, November 12 to 15.
The production is student directed, with NHS teach...
Published: Nov 12, 2015 at 12:00 AM
Jennifer Desrosiers, 24, a former resident of Newtown, died from injuries received in an automobile accident, November 10, in Orlando, Fla., where she resided.
Ms Desrosiers was a communicant of St Rose of Lima church when she was growing up in Newto...
Published: Nov 12, 2015 at 12:00 AM
Newtown High School diver Kari Djonne, coming off her first-place performance in the South-West Conference championship, was runner-up in the Class LL finals at Bulkeley High in Hartford, on November 11. Djonne scored 440.95. Westhill-Stamford’s Rach...
Published: Nov 12, 2015 at 12:00 AM
Doris J. Reilly, 87, beloved wife of the late Charles J. Reilly, died peacefully, surrounded by her family, November 9. She was born in Bridgeport in 1928, and raised in Milford, a community that remained close to her heart. She was the daughter of t...
Published: Nov 12, 2015 at 12:00 AM
To the Editor:
Like others perhaps, we are very concerned for the safety of pedestrians, bikers and vehicular traffic at many of our town center crosswalks. With three crosswalks and more than five access vehicular paths plus parking and departing ve...
Published: Nov 12, 2015 at 12:00 AM
We expect the town officials we elected last week to collectively serve us in ways that are spelled out in detail in our town charter. We also expect them to serve as our proxies at long, and often boring, meetings we really would rather not attend. ...
Published: Nov 12, 2015 at 12:00 AM
Horse Guard Swords Stolen
Sometime between October 30 and November 7, someone entered a storage building at the grounds for the Second Company Governor’s Horse Guard at 4 Wildlife Drive, Fairfield Hills, and stole two decorative sabers, police s...
Published: Nov 12, 2015 at 12:00 AM
Newtown’s volleyball team, the No. 20 seed in the Class LL field, visited No. 13 Trumbull and lost 3-1 (20-25, 25-18, 26-24, 25-16) in the first round of the state tournament, on November 9. Newtown went 11-8 in the regular season, and Trumbull was 1...
Published: Nov 12, 2015 at 12:00 AM
With a hand across her heart, Donna Monteleone opened Wednesday’s Veterans Day ceremony with a prayer for the “devotion of those who have fought for freedom, and those who laid down their lives.”
Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Post 308 chaplain and a...
Published: Nov 12, 2015 at 12:00 AM
Newtown High School’s field hockey team, seeded 15th in the Class L bracket, blanked No. 18 Amity of Woodbridge 3-0 in a qualifying-round contest, under the lights at Blue & Gold Stadium, on November 9. The Nighthawks, 8-6-1-1 (wins, losses, ties, ov...
