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Young Artists Sought For SH Run For Families Youth T-Shirt Designs

Published: Jan 14, 2014 at 12:00 AM
Organizers of the second Sandy Hook Run For Families are looking for help from Newtown children ages 2–10. A logo (or two, or ten) for this year’s race is needed, and local children are being tapped for their artistic talents. The Sandy Hook Run for ...

Another Successful Mitten Tree

Published: Jan 14, 2014 at 12:00 AM
To the Editor: Recently the 13th annual “Mitten Tree” concluded... and just in the nick of time! The hundreds of hats, mittens, and scarves collected in the Newtown Police Department lobby over the last month all went to the Newtown Social Services D...

Optimism Colors Remediation Progress At C.H. Booth Library

Published: Jan 13, 2014 at 12:00 AM
Following flooding on January 4 at C.H. Booth Library from sprinkler pipes that froze and burst, sending a deluge of damaging water through the first and second floor sections of the 1998 addition to the historic building, cleanup continued on Monday...

Anne F. Kopf

Published: Jan 13, 2014 at 12:00 AM
Anne F. Kopf, 85, of Newtown, formerly of Norwalk, Woodbury, and Shelton, died peacefully January 8, surrounded by her loving family. Born January 14, 1928, she was the daughter of the late Catherine and Frank Fasano of the Bronx, N.Y. Mrs Kopf was t...

Sheila Parkington Pinckney

Published: Jan 13, 2014 at 12:00 AM
Sheila Parkington Pinckney, 85, of Sandy Hook died January 9 at Masonicare in Newtown. She was the loving wife of Warren J. Pinckney, her husband of 62 years. The daughter of the late Betsy (Ellison) and John Parkington, she was born November 12, 192...

Church Members Explain Reasons For Planned Land Sale To Hook & Ladder

Published: Jan 13, 2014 at 12:00 AM
Representatives of Trinity Episcopal Church, which plans to sell land to the Newtown Hook & Ladder volunteer firefighting organization for construction of a new firehouse, have explained church members’ thinking in terms of their recent decision to s...

FFH Authority Elects New Chair, Reflects On 2013

Published: Jan 13, 2014 at 12:00 AM
The final Fairfield Hills Authority meeting of 2013 indicated changes to come for 2014. The role of chairman has passed from James Bernardi to authority member Thomas Connors. Noting his “last night as chair” at the December 18 meeting, Mr Bernardi s...

Robert W. Knapp

Published: Jan 13, 2014 at 12:00 AM
Robert W. Knapp, 77, of Sandy Hook, died January 9 after a brief illness. He was born March 23, 1936, at his grandparents’ farm in Sandy Hook. His son Robert D. Knapp, and wife Renee, and their children J.D. and Matthew of Sandy Hook; his daughter Su...

Brookfield Dispatcher Keeps Job After Newtown Comments

Published: Jan 13, 2014 at 12:00 AM
BROOKFIELD (AP) — A public safety dispatcher in Brookfield is being allowed to keep his job despite an outcry over a comment he posted on Facebook about the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings. Gregory Beck is a dispatcher in Brookfield and lives ...