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Liz Carroll, the legendary Irish fiddler and composer, was having a very good week when I spoke with her. She had just got back from teaching at the O’Flaherty Irish Music Youth Camp in Texas; her hometown hockey team, the Chicago Blackhawks, had won...

The fifth annual National High School Musical Theater Awards was held on Monday, July 1, at the Minskoff Theatre on Broadway. Newtown High School Class of 2013 graduate Taylor Varga, winner of the Connecticut High School Musical Theater Awards, perfo...

Two weeks after summer break began, Head O’ Meadow School classrooms were abuzz again, this time with excitement as Summer Music And Arts (SMART) Camp celebrated its opening day on July 1. This year is the 22nd summer the SMART Camp has offered conti...

The fifth annual National High School Musical Theater Awards was held on Monday, July 1, at the Minskoff Theatre on Broadway. Newtown High School Class of 2013 graduate Taylor Varga, winner of the Connecticut High School Musical Theater Awards, perfo...

Artist and resident Jim Chillington propped his easel on the sidewalk  outside The Newtown Bee at 5 Church Hill Road and quickly sketched a view. Taking shape on his canvas was the newspaper’s façade, and in quick strokes the branches of a Japanese M...

While First Selectman Pat Llodra announced last week that the majority of post-12/14 events have already been scheduled and/or announced, she also hinted that there were two special events that were still coming while students and families were enjoy...

Summer thrums. Life is ascendant under the summer sun, endlessly cycling in little eddies cast up in the wake of successively larger cycles of seasons, planets, stars, and galaxies. Each cycle has its own frequency, its own back and forth, hither and...