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Rotary’s Recent Guests Offered Updates From LLS The Rotary Club of Newtown hosted Kristen Angell and Ginny Chion, who represented the Connecticut chapter of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS), at the club’s meeting on Monda...

Adopt A Dog From The Pound The following dogs are among those available for adoption from the Newtown pound, which is located at the end of Ethan Allen Road (behind the transfer station): LUCKY is a male Akita mix around 5 years old. Mostly blac...

Castle Hill Road Janelle and Roy Gagne purchased a home at 113 Castle Hill Road from Nanette and Giacinto Maturi. Andy Sachs of Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage listed the property and Ellen Baff of Century 21, Bethel sold the property. At...

Study Finds Widening Poverty Gap In Connecticut By Keith M. Phaneuf © The Connecticut Mirror The gap between Connecticut’s top wage earners and others continues to grow in the aftermath of the Great Recession, according to a new study th...

St Rose Bingo Nights Returning St Rose Bingo is returning for another season. Friday Bingo nights will be held on September 14, November 16, January 11, February 8, March 8, April 12 and May 10, in the school’s Gathering Hall, at 46 Chur...

Occupation: I’m a jack of all trades. Right now, I’m a “camp counselor” for my kids, taking them crawdad hunting, fishing, swimming, all that summer stuff. During the school year, I volunteer at the...

A Last Blast Of Summer Fun Wearing sun-kissed cheeks and bathing suits, children filled the Treadwell Park playground and pool last week. Soaking in the last lazy August days of their summer break before the 2012-13 school year began in Newtown on Au...

Time To Show Off Your Canine — Dog Show Set For September 15 Bethlehem — On Saturday, September 15, from 1 to 4 pm, Connecticut Landmarks’ Bellamy-Ferriday House & Garden will present the 11th Annual Dog Show. In h...

If Tropical Storm Irene taught us anything a year ago this week, it is that everything is mutable — even a tradition as rock solid as Newtown’s Labor Day Parade. It was not a storm of historic proportions; we’ve en...

2012-13 School Year Begins, With Some Showers And Transportation Issues By Eliza Hallabeck At both Reed Intermediate School and Hawley Elementary School sporadic downpours of rain the morning of Tuesday, August 28, did nothing to dim the sunny dispos...