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CompARTmentz: A Look Inside An Artist’s World By Nancy K. Crevier Martha LaMarche’s works of art have been exhibited in small venues, including the Office of The First Selectman at Newtown Municipal Center earlier this year, b...

Oh, for the good old days when people would stop Christmas shopping when they ran out of money. —Anonymous But it is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy something, which does not represent your life and talent, but ...

Winterset Ski Club Holds Raffle Night By Warren Griffiths Do you want to get up to 50 percent off on lift tickets to almost all of the major resorts in New England? Do you want to meet new friends and families who share the same hobbies as you? Do yo...

Legion Baseball Tryouts The Bethel Admirals American Legion Baseball club is holding tryouts during November and December for the 2013 summer season. First tryout is Saturday, November 24 from 7 to 8:30 pm on the turf at Newtown Youth Academy. The A...

Book Signing By Newtown Author/Illustrator Jennifer Thermes Newtown author/illustrator Jennifer Thermes will be at the C.H. Booth Library, Saturday, December 1, between 10 am and noon, for a book signing of Rebecca Rule’s childrenâ€&...

Animal Center Dogs Need Homes The following dogs are among those available for adoption through The Animal Center: MARGIE is a very sweet and calm dog. She  is a young adult, small boxer mix, very friendly, and well behaved. Margie is 35 pounds,...

Art Exhibits____ _____ Avanc é Esth étiques Day Spa, Sand Hill Plaza, 228 Main St South, Newtown; 203-270-8911. *(new show) Through Dec 31: “SCAN Art About Town: CompARTmentz,” see feature story above. Gunn Mem...

Beatrice Myrtle Knecht Thompson Beatrice Myrtle Knecht Thompson, 88, a Sandy Hook resident for the past 40 years, died peacefully, in Danbury Hospital, November 15. She was the fourth of seven children, born October 7, 1924, in Trumbull, the daughter...

State’s Jobless Rate Creeps Up Slightly To 9 Percent Keith M. Phaneuf ©The Connecticut Mirror Connecticut’s unemployment rate rose marginally in October, climbing to 9 percent despite 1,200 new jobs added last month, the sta...

Fatal Crash On I-84 In Middlebury Snarls Traffic For Hours MIDDLEBURY — A Massachusetts woman was killed in a six-vehicle chain-reaction accident on eastbound Interstate 84 between Exits 16 and 17 at about 4 pm on Tuesday, resulting in I-...