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Published: Aug 08, 2014 at 12:00 AM
To the Editor:
While I have had the great fortune of meeting many of you in person, if I have not please allow me to introduce myself. My name is Jack Wellman. I am a 15-year-old sophomore at Newtown High School, and I am a member of the Newtown Lacr...
Published: Aug 08, 2014 at 12:00 AM
Bethel area oenophiles have a new place to meet and mingle. The 227 Wine Bar, owned by Linda and Michael Rizzo, opened to the public Friday, August 8, in a comfortable setting at 227 Greenwood Avenue.
“We’ve had a really good response. People are hap...
Published: Aug 08, 2014 at 12:00 AM
August 11, 1989
For years, criminals have been walking around with guns that make the police issued .38 caliber revolvers seem like pea-shooters — but no longer. As of Tuesday, August 8, all Newtown Police Officers began carrying Austrian Glock ...
Published: Aug 08, 2014 at 12:00 AM
A new flagpole is up, the driveway is in, new pavers are on order, and both interior and exterior work at Newtown Volunteer Ambulance Association’s new garage are nearly complete.
Clerk of the Works Brian Feeney said the construction schedule runs th...
Published: Aug 08, 2014 at 12:00 AM
A local development firm wants to construct an approximately 30,000-square-foot mixed-use building at the current site of Woodbury Hall at Fairfield Hills, which would include a combination of retail uses, office space, and rental apartments.
The con...
Published: Aug 08, 2014 at 12:00 AM
Following discussion at an August 5 Police Commission session, commission members told a two-member town study panel that they do not want the town’s radio dispatching for emergency 911, police, fire, and ambulance calls to change its location from t...
Published: Aug 08, 2014 at 12:00 AM
Want to know how to catch a raccoon? Well, don’t ask Howard Lasher. Someone told Howard that the best way to solve the raccoon problem in his garden was to place sardines in a Hav-A-Hart trap. That may attract raccoons, true, but there are many other...
Published: Aug 08, 2014 at 12:00 AM
Multiple Charges
Police report that while on patrol about 6 pm on July 28, they spotted motorist Louis Deluca, 32, of 9 Frontage Road traveling 50 miles per hour in 25-mph zone near the intersection of Tunnel Road and Barnanbas Road, so they sto...
Published: Aug 08, 2014 at 12:00 AM
Occupation: I’m a teacher at Wallace Middle School in Middlebury, for eighth grade social studies. Never a dull moment! But that’s part of the fun. I’ve been a teacher for 11 years. I started life out as an attorney. I’m a lot happier now.
Fa...
Published: Aug 07, 2014 at 12:00 AM
Newtown High School’s fall sports tryouts will be held later in August. Most teams will meet on Saturday, August 23. The football team will meet on Monday, August 18. Athletes are asked to bring water to all tryouts. Schedule is as follows:
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