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Businesses Helped Meet The Summer Reading Challenge To the Editor: The Teen Summer Reading Challenge for grades 6–12 at C.H. Booth Library has just ended, and it was a great success. Over 100 young people participated, which is the most ...

Olympic Show Jumping Highlights By Abbie Branchflower Team USA jumped (quite literally) into the Olympic Games’ Show Jumping competition in London as returning champions, having won team gold at both the 2004 Athens and 2008 Beijing Olymp...

Senate Race Poll: McMahon Even With Murphy By Ana Radelat ©The Connecticut Mirror The race for retiring Joe Lieberman’s Senate seat has turned into a horse race, with Republican Linda McMahon running neck-and-neck with Democratic Represe...

Author With Area Ties To Speak About Home Food Preserving Eat better food. Help save the world. Prepare for the zombie apocalypse. According to author Daniel Gasteiger, these are a few of the benefits of preserving produce at home. Mr Gasteigerâ&#x80...

Say Yes To The Dress — And A Walk Down The Aisle By Nancy K. Crevier A special story featuring a Newtown bride will be featured late in 2012 or early 2013, on the TLC channel “Say Yes To The Dress” program. It is a...

Parade Lineup Welcomes Newcomers And Longtime Favorites By Nancy K. Crevier The countdown begins for the annual Newtown Labor Day Parade, and this year parade committee members are hoping not to have to work around a tropical storm. Last yearâ€...

Fireside Defeats Black Swan For Third Straight Title Fireside defeated Black Swan 7-4 for its third straight Newtown Women’s Softball League championship at Treadwell Park on August 17. The game was held a week after its originally schedu...

Ending Summer Vacation With A Skirmish Erica “The Snake” Hill and Julia “Tater” Diluoffo set their lasers aside. “That was intense,” Julia said. “So much adrenaline,â...

Theater Review— Goodspeed’s ‘Carousel’ May Be The Best Ever By Julie Stern EAST HADDAM — When Rodgers and Hammerstein’s second show, Carousel, premiered in New York in April 1945...

Esther E.     Anderson Esther E. Anderson, 80, died August 20, at Masonicare at Newtown. She was born July 9, 1932, to Mabel and Ernest Erickson. Two sons, Carl Anderson of Newtown and Russell Anderson of New Milford; a daughter, Judy Miron of W...