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To the Editor:
In the past 21 months, I have met and spoken with many elected officials – both here in Connecticut and in Washington DC – as I advocated for sensible gun legislation. Having spent time with Kim Fawcett on several occasions and after l...
Published: Sep 06, 2014 at 12:00 AM
From the barren, pocked lot where a boxy Shell station once stood greeting residents and visitors exiting Interstate 84 onto Church Hill Road, a new, more aesthetically pleasing Colonial-looking mini mart is about to take shape according to its devel...
Published: Sep 06, 2014 at 12:00 AM
The first meeting-program of the 2014-14 season for The Genealogy Club of Newtown will be on Wednesday, September 10, at C.H. Booth Library, 25 Main Street.
The program will begin at 7, but the library’s Genealogy Help Desk will be open at 6:45 for t...
Published: Sep 06, 2014 at 12:00 AM
The small, occasionally boisterous but often hushed group of women gathered around a set of tables one recent afternoon at a Newtown restaurant could have been mistaken for any group of friends or co-workers meeting up for some late day chat and a be...
Published: Sep 06, 2014 at 12:00 AM
The Shamrock Traditional Irish Music Society (STIMS) will host its next Newtown Meeting House concert on Monday, September 15. This month’s guest is The Alt: John Doyle, Nuala Kennedy and Eamon O’Leary.
The performance will begin at 7:30.
Grammy nomi...
Published: Sep 06, 2014 at 12:00 AM
While driving a larger-than-life bright orange chair through New York City recently, Newtown resident Douglas Calderone soon realized that its eye-catching qualities could do more than raise a smile.
He is now raffling off the chair with proceeds to ...
Published: Sep 06, 2014 at 12:00 AM
The Northern Fairfield Professionals, a networking group focusing on people in transition, is meeting Tuesday, September 9, from 5:30 to 8 pm at the Knights of Columbus building at 46 Church Hill Road, behind St Rose Church.
Linda Van Valkenburgh wil...
Published: Sep 06, 2014 at 12:00 AM
Walking past a twisting vine carved into smoked glass on the front door, Diane Thompson enters her bright, naturally lit Victorian home that has been a fixture on Newtown’s Main Street since 1899. After launching major renovations several months ago,...
Published: Sep 05, 2014 at 12:00 AM
To the Editor:
What is with the “F” word (and worse) being splattered throughout today’s movies?
It adds nothing to the quality of the movie, but this gratuitous use of profanity and sex does harm our children and our culture. It influences impressi...
Published: Sep 05, 2014 at 12:00 AM
Occupation: I’m the principal of St Rose of Lima School, and religious sister, Apostle of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
Family: I am the youngest of five children. I grew up in St Louis, Mo. I have three older brothers and one older sister. My m...
