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Kelley Sullivan Sullivan is the assistant director of the Newtown Nike Running Camp at Newtown High School’s Blue & Gold Stadium this summer. Sullivan is a former runner and soccer player at NHS. Favorite part about working at the cam...

    Philo Curtis Road Aiman M. Elhag purchased 52 Philo Curtis Road from Cathy and James Smarrella. Kenny Jacobson of Flagpole Realty, Inc in sold the property, which was listed by Susan Hotchkiss of William Keller Realty in Trumbull...

FAITH Food Pantry Needs Donations By Nancy K. Crevier Three months ago, the shelves at the FAITH Food Pantry in the basement of St John’s Episcopal Church on Washington Avenue were stacked to the ceiling with donated goods. This week, tho...

New System Goes Vertical— Turning Gardening Conventions On End By Nancy K. Crevier If your idea of the perfect vegetable garden is one that is lush and green, located handily to your kitchen, does not suffer from too much or too little w...

The State’s Open Space Plan Just over a month ago, when so many in Newtown were spending long hours in florescent-lit meeting rooms considering columns of numbers in search of a secret formula for a successful budget, Governor Dannel P. M...

Learning the Language of Computer Programming By Sarah Scinto Several Newtown students spent the week of July 9–13 learning the language of Scratch, a computer programming software developed by the MIT Media Lab. Scratch was developed as ...

Time To End The Circus To the Editor: According to reports from the US Labor Department, the federal government and states made overpayments to the tune of $14 billion in benefits during fiscal 2011. That number equates to 11 percent of all jobless b...

Storyteller Entertains At The Library By Kendra Bobowick “Can you point out where the moon should be, that quiet luminescence overhead?” asked Chris Fascione. As he entertained children with his animated stories Friday, July 2...

Town Plan Update— P&Z Reviews Community Facilities Planning By Andrew Gorosko Planning and Zoning Commission (P&Z) members are reviewing the role of various community facilities with an eye toward making recommendations on how those fa...