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Published: Jun 19, 2013 at 12:00 AM
St Rose of Lima Parish will host its annual carnival on the parish grounds beginning Tuesday evening, June 25, and continuing nightly through Saturday, June 29. The carnival will operate from 6 to 10:30 each night. Ride bracelets will be available fo...
Published: Jun 19, 2013 at 12:00 AM
To the Editor:
Quick shout out to Oscar Berendsohn, your request to change the wording of the constitution is called an amendment. Amending the Constitution has been done many times, it starts with a proposal and subsequent two-thirds majority vote i...
Published: Jun 18, 2013 at 12:00 AM
First Selectman Pat Llodra has announced that Newtown Cultural Arts Commission has received a $30,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to support HealingNewtown. Mrs Llodra made one of the first announcements about the grant on Fr...
Published: Jun 18, 2013 at 12:00 AM
Pauline “Babe” Williams, 94, a resident of Newtown and formerly of Bridgeport, died peacefully, June 6. She was born November 28, 1918, on Thanksgiving Day, in Scranton, Penn., a daughter of Pauline (Schmidt) and Edward Nicholas.
Mrs Williams was a m...
Published: Jun 18, 2013 at 12:00 AM
General Electric has provided a fourth loaned executive to the town, this time to provide added support to the school district and Board of Education. Joni Capoccitti, who has been with GE for 35 years, will serve as a project manager for the distric...
Published: Jun 18, 2013 at 12:00 AM
To the Editor:
Thanks to the Newtown community for coming out on Saturday June 15th in support of the Newtown Parks and Recreation’s 39th annual Rooster Run/Walk 5K. We had 464 finishers, a Rooster Run record! It was the closest finish ever with Ke...
Published: Jun 18, 2013 at 12:00 AM
WASHINGTON – Connecticut’s congressional delegation wants to find a way to obtain federal dollars to replace Sandy Hook Elementary School with a new facility, but that will be a tough task.
The biggest obstacle to finding federal money for the const...
Published: Jun 18, 2013 at 12:00 AM
Wilmer J. Mathuren, 93, of Newtown and previously of Dingmans Ferry, Penn., died June 16, at Danbury Hospital. He was born September 20, 1919, in Acushnet, Mass., son of Margaret (Blackburn) Mathuren and Samuel Joseph Mathuren, and was the husband of...
Published: Jun 17, 2013 at 12:00 AM
Masonicare at Newtown, 139 Toddy Hill Road, will host its 2nd Annual Kids Fishing Derby and Family Fun Day this weekend.
The event will run from 10:30 am until 1 pm, rain or shine, on Saturday, June 22.
This is a catch and release fishing derby open ...
Published: Jun 17, 2013 at 12:00 AM
HARTFORD — I really didn’t know what to expect from Becoming Dr Ruth, Mark St Germain’s one-woman play about America’s most famous sex therapist, the tiny grandmotherly woman with the thick German accent, the beaming smile, and the startlingly frank ...
