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Published: Feb 10, 2014 at 12:00 AM
The 2014 Newtown Arts Festival Committee plans to host its first public planning meeting on Tuesday, February 18, at 7 pm. It will be in the HealingNewtown Arts Center, located on the lower level of Newtown Congregational Church at 14 West Street.
Th...
Published: Feb 10, 2014 at 12:00 AM
According to its Facebook page, the 2014 Relay For Life of Newtown kickoff meeting has been rescheduled to tonight.
The event, which was originally scheduled for Monday, February 3, was postponed last week due to the first of two snowstorms that blan...
Published: Feb 10, 2014 at 12:00 AM
Newtown High School senior Jenna Calandro earned the Class LL state title in the pole vault event by clearing the bar with a height of 11 feet, seven inches in the championship meet at the Floyd Little Athletic Center in New Haven on February 8.
It m...
Published: Feb 08, 2014 at 12:00 AM
The state Department of Transportation (DOT) has scheduled a public informational meeting for Tuesday, February 11, on its plans to replace an antiquated bridge and to alleviate a traffic bottleneck on the section of Sugar Street (Route 302) just wes...
Published: Feb 07, 2014 at 12:00 AM
At one point late in the Board of Selectmen’s 2014-15 budget deliberations, Selectman James Gaston, Sr, observed, “You have to be disciplined when times are good and you have to be disciplined when times are bad.”
His comment came as he and fellow Se...
Published: Feb 07, 2014 at 12:00 AM
The state Department of Transportation (DOT) has scheduled a public informational meeting for Tuesday, February 11, on its plans to replace an antiquated bridge and to alleviate a traffic bottleneck on the section of Sugar Street (Route 302) just wes...
Published: Feb 07, 2014 at 12:00 AM
After reviewing its budget goals for the 2014-15 fiscal year, the Board of Education approved a spending plan during its meeting on Thursday, February 6, with no increase over the previous year.
The board also tabled a second motion that would have s...
Published: Feb 07, 2014 at 12:00 AM
A vacant, deteriorated building on Church Hill Road that town officials have long considered to be an eyesore was demolished this week following the town’s pursuit of its removal through the provisions of the recently enacted municipal anti-blight or...
Published: Feb 07, 2014 at 12:00 AM
To the Editor:
Why did I go solar?
1. Is it because I am an old hippie? (I did attend the very first Earth Day in April, 1970 as a college freshman so maybe.)
2. Is it because I am a science teacher and feel that the US is not utilizing all its opti...
Published: Feb 07, 2014 at 12:00 AM
Although he was not the first President to have a bathtub in The White House, many people are aware that the 300-plus pound William Howard Taft was the first who needed to be extricated from the tub. What else do you know about Presidential firsts an...
