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Top elected officials began what is expected to be a slow, deliberate, and complex process to produce the most comprehensive analysis of town-owned buildings and facilities ever mounted in Newtown. After much pre-meeting discussion, the Board of Sele...

Those lost to cancer were remembered: “To my lovely sister who I miss so much, I love you,” said one handwritten message on the Wall of Remembrance displayed during this year’s 2014 Relay for Life on May 31, its tenth in Newtown.  The message continu...

Top elected officials began what is expected to be a slow, deliberate, and complex process to produce the most comprehensive analysis of town-owned buildings and facilities ever mounted in Newtown. After much pre-meeting discussion, the Board of Sele...

Occupation: I am the driver for Bus #24, for the Newtown schools. I get to go all over the place. I drive routes for the high school, Reed Intermediate School, and for Middle Gate School. Family: I’ve been married to Jonathan for 20 years — q...

The wail of police sirens, radio announcements (in oddly young voices) to “Pull over and put your hands up!” and the honking of fire truck horns that carried out to Church Hill Road from behind Hawley School, Friday, May 30 was no cause for alarm. It...

June 9, 1989 Construction of the new playground at Dickinson Park began in the rain on Wednesday, as boom augers drilled hoes in the muddy earth for support posts. Despite poor working conditions, volunteers dressed in slickers and mud-caked boo...