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Published: Jan 21, 2015 at 12:00 AM
A swimming and diving team’s success cannot be measured exclusively by wins and losses, or how close a meet is for that matter. Individual event times (and scores in the case of diving) have to be taken into consideration and, with that said, things ...
Published: Jan 21, 2015 at 12:00 AM
Information in the story has been amended as of January 22, 2015.
The 2015 Newtown Arts Festival winning logo is “Making Music,” a linoleum block print of four Newtown High School Marching Band tuba players that was created by Newtown resident a...
Published: Jan 21, 2015 at 12:00 AM
Newtown High School’s wrestling team defeated host New Milford 42-18 on January 21. This was a battle of the top two teams in last year’s South-West Conference championships, won by the Green Wave in a nail-biter. In this matchup, the Nighthawks made...
Published: Jan 21, 2015 at 12:00 AM
May Louise Peck Blanchard, 97, of Lake Wales, Fla., died peacefully January 4. Born January 22, 1917, in St Johnsbury, Vt., to Mary (Salmon) and George Peck, Mrs Blanchard had been a resident of Newtown for more than 30 years prior to moving to Flori...
Published: Jan 20, 2015 at 12:00 AM
On Thursday, February 5, Flagpole Photographers Camera Club will host a hands-on program. “Getting To Know Your Camera” will feature an open discussion on photography tips and tricks, and improving photographs with one's own camera.
The free hands-on...
Published: Jan 20, 2015 at 12:00 AM
The Newtown based company, Connectologie, LLC, recently announced the creation of a $2,500 Kidologie Scholarship to be awarded to a graduating 2015 Newtown High School senior.
The money will be raised from admission ticket sales at the company’s 3rd ...
Published: Jan 20, 2015 at 12:00 AM
With the recent cold snap I’ve become nostalgic for hay. That’s right, hay. Whenever sub-zero wind chills make the news, I take a deep breath and can recall that sweet smell of alfalfa and timothy on crisp winter mornings.
My old horse would eat copi...
Published: Jan 20, 2015 at 12:00 AM
Newtown High School’s girls’ and boys’ indoor track and field teams competed in the Yale Classic Invitational in New Haven on January 16 and 17, and participated in the South-West Conference Developmental meet at Wesleyan University in Middletown on ...
Published: Jan 20, 2015 at 12:00 AM
A land development firm has sued the Water & Sewer Authority (WSA), seeking to have a judge order the WSA to expand the municipal sanitary sewer service district so that all of a 35-acre parcel at 79 Church Hill Road is placed within the sewer distri...
Published: Jan 20, 2015 at 12:00 AM
A blocked shot, steal, go-ahead basket, and drawn charge in the waning seconds helped the host Newtown High School boys’ basketball team overcome a game-long deficit to shock Notre Dame-Fairfield 44-43 on January 20. The Nighthawks won their seventh ...
