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Published: Aug 26, 2014 at 12:00 AM
Classrooms were set, welcoming signs were on display, and students were making their way into their schools for the first time of the 2014-15 school year on Tuesday, August 26, for the first day of school.
Just before buses began pulling up at Middle...
Published: Aug 26, 2014 at 12:00 AM
Kenneth Gregory Ayles, 50, of Sandy Hook died Thursday, August 21, with his family by his side.
Mr Ayles grew up in Norwalk. He graduated from Norwalk High, and led its basketball team to win the state basketball title in 1982. He attended the Univer...
Published: Aug 26, 2014 at 12:00 AM
Anxiety about the first day of school is not limited to kindergarteners and children starting a new school. Younger children, even those with a year or two of school behind them, may experience a new or repeat bout of separation anxiety, and children...
Published: Aug 25, 2014 at 12:00 AM
The Board of Selectmen has appointed seven residents to what is expected to be a slow and thoughtful analysis of all town public facilities with a focus on Town Hall South, the current Newtown Hook & Ladder headquarters, and the multipurpose building...
Published: Aug 25, 2014 at 12:00 AM
To the Editor:
My name is Tom and I am a proud Newtown skateboarder who uses the skate park at Dickinson [Park] on an almost daily basis, and I recognize an ongoing problem. Whether its because my peers were denied the upbringing I had, or its that t...
Published: Aug 25, 2014 at 12:00 AM
Rose Lillian Richardson Helsel, 89, formerly of Newtown, died peacefully August 18 at the Kingston, N.Y., home of her daughter and son-in-law, Lynn and Richard Wade, with whom she lived for the past ten years. She was born March 1, 1925, to Lillian (...
Published: Aug 25, 2014 at 12:00 AM
James “Jimmy” Bassett, 57, of Barefoot Bay, Fla., and formerly of Danbury, died August 20, after fighting end-stage heart disease for more than 14 years. He was born in Danbury, September 20, 1956.
In addition to his wife of 25 years, Sue Sheehan Bas...
Published: Aug 25, 2014 at 12:00 AM
Stephen John Dawson, 56, of Stormville, N.Y., died August 22. He was born in Flushing, N.Y., December 18, 1957, to Geraldine (Rehmann) and John W. Dawson.
On May 1, 1983, he married the love of his life, Lisa (DeSimone) in Fishkill, N.Y.
He graduated...
Published: Aug 25, 2014 at 12:00 AM
Elle Sauli has been crowned Miss Northern States Jr Teen 2014.
The 13-year-old from Newtown, who will begin her freshman year at Newtown High School this week, won the title during the New England Miss American Coed (MAC) Pageant. The event was held ...
Published: Aug 25, 2014 at 12:00 AM
Arlene Stanley, 76, of Fairfield died peacefully August 20. Born in Camden, N.J., to Ann (Walsh) and Arthur Stanley, she was a longtime area resident.
Her loving brothers Michael J. Stanley, and his wife Joanne, of Newtown and Arthur M. Stanley, and ...
