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Published: Jul 30, 2013 at 12:00 AM
To the Editor:
As chaperones of the Ben’s Lighthouse sponsored work camp in Oklahoma, we want to praise each and every one of the youth who took part in the trip: Aimee Alexander, Alana Murray, Austen Wagner, Brenna Kelly, Dan Harrison, Elizabeth Ca...
Published: Jul 30, 2013 at 12:00 AM
For five days last week, 19 Newtown teenagers worked through 100-degree Oklahoma heat, dodged powerful thunderstorms, avoided rattlesnakes, scorpions and other creatures foreign to most New Englanders, and endured cold showers and ad hoc sleeping arr...
Published: Jul 30, 2013 at 12:00 AM
To the Editor:
Our mutual pain and suffering is what allows us Newtowners to clench hands in a large circle – all 27,560 of us. It’s easy for us to open up to one another because there is not a single person in that circle who cannot understand our p...
Published: Jul 30, 2013 at 12:00 AM
To the Editor:
Once again the loyal supporters of the Newtown Chapter of Regional Hospice & Home Care came out to support our 24th Annual Breakfast at The Waterview on June 12th. The numbers are just about all in and we have realized a profit of $22...
Published: Jul 30, 2013 at 12:00 AM
A group of 37 young adults, nine adults and Pastor Kathie Adams-Shepherd from Trinity Episcopal Church set out for Norristown, Penn., in late June, to complete their 21st successive summer mission trip with Group Workcamps.
The Group Workcamp Foundat...
Published: Jul 29, 2013 at 12:00 AM
A paint-spattered drop cloth clung to furniture and covered part of the floor in Southbury artist David Merrill’s living room.
Stepping indoors Thursday, July 18, from a sticky heat, he and Newtown resident Laurie McCollum looked at four-foot-high wo...
Published: Jul 29, 2013 at 12:00 AM
Frank E. Velky, 102, of Bridgeport, died July 27, at Connecticut Hospice. Mr Velky was born in Bridgeport to Julia (Pekar) and MartinVelky.
He was a founding member of the Cedarhurst Association on Lake Zoar in Newtown.
Mr Velky had earned the nickna...
Published: Jul 29, 2013 at 12:00 AM
To the Editor:
For 10 years now it has been in the Fairfield Hills Master Plan to build a Cultural Arts Center. Unfortunately, because of budgetary concerns, the town never felt like it had the opportunity to put forward a proposal to make this happe...
Published: Jul 29, 2013 at 12:00 AM
AUGUSTA, ME. (AP) — Six museums in Maine are raising funds for The EverWonder Children’s Museum.
The museums will be offering free admission and accepting donations Thursday, August 1, to support construction of the EverWonder Children’s Museum. Pla...
Published: Jul 29, 2013 at 12:00 AM
Shortly after noon Monday, police and emergency crews responded to Berkshire Road in the area of the Misty Vale Deli for a motor vehicle crash. Upon arrival responders and police found a single vehicle had hit and snapped a utility pole, which caused...
