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Girls’ Booters Boast Offensive Firepower By Andy Hutchison Too many things need to go right for a soccer team to win for Marc Kenney to make any sort of predictions about his team in 2012. All too often it’s that one weird bou...

Statehouse Campaigns For The 106th District Ramping Up By John Voket While it is still unclear whether Newtown will have two or three candidates on the November ballot for the 106th District (see related story), local Republicans and Democrats have b...

Save The Date For Pumpkins   Newtown Lions Club’s  third annual Great Pumpkin Race take place behind Edmond Town Hall from 10 am until 2 pm on Saturday, October 20, with pumpkins on wheels being raced, a decorated pumpkins contest, and...

Former NFL Player To Start The Gunnery’s Speaker Series Washington — On, Tuesday, September 18, at 7 pm, in the Ogden D. Miller Athletic Center (lower gym) at The Gunnery, former professional football player, Patrick Kerney wi...

Doggone Etiquette — Stop Biting By Bardi McLennan A Word to the Dog:            Your VIPerson tells you not to bite, but you get lots of attention when you do, so you bite. That is definitely the wrong kind of attention fo...

Lexington Gardens— Commercial Redevelopment Project Headed To Public Hearing By Andrew Gorosko A major commercial redevelopment proposal for Church Hill Road has gained endorsements from three local agencies and is headed for a Borough Z...

Why Do Volunteers Have To Pay To March? To the Editor: Congratulations and thanks to the Labor Day Parade Committee for a job well done. Having co-chaired two of the parades in the past, I can truly appreciate all the hard work, sweat and, yes, some...

By Julie Stern In 1812, Napoleon's Grande Armée of 500,000 troops was defeated in its attempt to subdue Russia and crush the Czar. They were forced into retreat, a long, disastrous march back to France in which some 400,000 men and officers died of t...

Residents Have Options To Observe 9/11 Newtowners have at least two ways to observe the 11th anniversary of 9/11. The 12th Annual CT United Ride will take place on Sunday. Motorcyclists from all over Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Yo...

To the Editor: Linda McMahon… Linda, honey, you are wasting your money. Why don’t you get in the ring and wrestle with the truth. You certainly have not found it in your ads or speeches on TV and we are all wise to you. Chris Murph...