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Published: May 28, 2013 at 12:00 AM
To the Editor:
This letter is an entreaty to the voters of Newtown to support the education budget at this third referendum scheduled for Tuesday, June 4. The budget request as it stands now calls for a year over year increase of 3.93 percent, havin...
Published: May 28, 2013 at 12:00 AM
To the Editor:
A rare F5 tornado leaves a 14-mile path of destruction in a populated area. Twenty-four dead. We are doing something right: early warning systems and education, and more.
A disturbed young man walks into a school with a semi-automatic ...
Published: May 28, 2013 at 12:00 AM
The colors, music, foods, and dance of the Hindi culture arrived at Edmond Town Hall on May 11 as the annual celebration of the Greater Danbury Hindi Learning Center drew nearly 100 people to the Alexandria Room.
According to school spokesperson Madh...
Published: May 27, 2013 at 12:00 AM
All flags should be lowered to half-staff today, in honor of Memorial Day. They should remain lowered until sunset this evening, which will be 8:12 pm.
President Obama released a proclamation on Friday, a "Prayer for Peace, Memorial Day, 2013," which...
Published: May 27, 2013 at 12:00 AM
(This is the tenth installation of a series of stories that share with readers special events that continue to take place as Newtown heals following the events of 12/14 at Sandy Hook School. It is also a continuation of anecdotes from across the ...
Published: May 27, 2013 at 12:00 AM
Placing a five-gallon pail on a drop cloth in the woods, bird bander and resident Larry Fischer reached in for the first of five baby screech owls.
Crouched around the pail were Diane and Stephen Costallos’s children Morgan, 7, Cooper, 3, and Aspen, ...
Published: May 26, 2013 at 12:00 AM
HARTFORD (AP) — Connecticut lawmakers on Thursday began building on a package of reforms the General Assembly passed in April that addressed the Newtown school shooting, requiring annual firearms safety training for armed security in local schools an...
Published: May 26, 2013 at 12:00 AM
HARTFORD (AP) — Connecticut is making $5 million available immediately to cities and towns to help reimburse them for school safety and security upgrades following 12/14.
Governor Dannel P. Malloy announced the first round of funding on May 24 for th...
Published: May 26, 2013 at 12:00 AM
HARTFORD (AP) — Connecticut’s Freedom of Information Commission on Friday denied a bid by Newtown officials to postpone a hearing on a request by The Associated Press for records related to the gunman in December’s school shooting.
An attorney for th...
Published: May 26, 2013 at 12:00 AM
The US Department of Education announced on Friday, May 24, it is awarding more than $1.3 million to Newtown Public School District to help with ongoing recovery efforts following the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School on 12/14. This grant, wh...
