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Published: Jul 24, 2014 at 12:00 AM
The public is invited to enjoy live music and refreshments on Saturday when the Parks & Recreation Department staff and supporters lead a grand opening celebration for the new Dickinson Memorial Playground (FunSpace II). The celebration will take pla...
Published: Jul 24, 2014 at 12:00 AM
Year after year, Newtown’s youth baseball players and their families make runs upstate, and out of state, to tangle with their New England-based opponents in regional tournaments. This summer, some of the local sluggers can leave their travel bags in...
Published: Jul 24, 2014 at 12:00 AM
Life Vest Found
Police report that on July 8 on Hanover Road, a person found a Kidder-brand life vest designed for a female.
Anyone missing such a flotation device may contact Officer William Crone at the police station at 3 Main Street, telepho...
Published: Jul 24, 2014 at 12:00 AM
The radio dispatchers at the Newtown Emergency Communications Center at Town Hall South, 3 Main Street, report the following fire calls and the responders:
Thursday, July 17: 1:48 pm, hazardous condition, near 85 South Main Street, Hook & Ladder ...
Published: Jul 24, 2014 at 12:00 AM
Once a pushcart gets rolling, you never know where it is going to stop. That may be the essential lesson of the Reed Intermediate School’s Pushcart Day. The end-of-the-school-year event has raised thousands of dollars over the years for causes rangin...
Published: Jul 24, 2014 at 12:00 AM
Team members often refer to their on-field peers as their sisters or brothers. After all, the makeup of a team somewhat emulates that of a family. When it comes to Newtown’s Wombat Sisterhood youth soccer squad, which recently completed its season, m...
Published: Jul 24, 2014 at 12:00 AM
Thanks to the past two Reed Intermediate School sixth grade classes, a school in Paynesville, a suburb of Monrovia, in Liberia, has a new well, and a new school building is being constructed.
This past February, Newtown Middle School seventh grade st...
Published: Jul 24, 2014 at 12:00 AM
SHELTON — Kyle Watkins of Newtown will appear in the Youth CONNection’s upcoming production of Les Miserables under the direction of Gary Scarpa.
Watkins, who will be a senior at Newtown High School in the fall, said, “Les Miserables is a beautiful s...
Published: Jul 24, 2014 at 12:00 AM
BRIDGEPORT — Ben’s Bells Newtown will be at Connecticut’s Beardsley Zoo on Sunday, August 3, from 10 am until 3 pm.
There will be a number of special events that day including a bell making workshop, bead sculpting, and Kindness Coins being handed ou...
Published: Jul 23, 2014 at 12:00 AM
With summer in full bloom and melons proliferating on the vines and in the supermarkets, maybe now is not the best time to confess that I grew up a melon hater.
Mostly, it was watermelon I detested. It was not the flavor that turned me off, but the m...
