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Brilliant ‘Brighton Beach’ The Town Players of Newtown are currently presenting their second production of the summer, Neil Simon’s semi-autobiographical Brighton Beach Memoirs. Performances began July 6 and will ...

Children’s Cuisine Of Newtown Awards Day Children’s Cuisine of Newtown held its last class and Award’s Day for its Seasonal Cooking Class on June 7. For the day, a buffet was prepared by the students for the pare...

Dodgers Reach Tourney Semifinals The Connecticut Dodgers 13U baseball team, based out of Newtown, played exceptional baseball in the Triple Crown Baseball Independence Day Shootout in North Branford, recently. The team reached the semifinal round aga...

Trespassing Police said that they were called at about 5:30 pm on July 8 to investigate a report of trespassing on property owned by First Light Hydro Generating Company at 72 Alberts Hill Road, near Lake Lillinonah. Police said they issued infr...

Theater Review — There Are A Few Good Reasons Why ‘Brigadoon’ Is Right For Richter’s Stage By Julie Stern DANBURY — Mention Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, and immediately people think...

DUI Arrest Police said they responded to a report of erratic driving on South Main Street at about 9:45 pm on July 1, after which they stopped motorist John Smolen, 68, of Trumbull near 151 South Main Street to investigate. Police said they char...

Rider University, Lawrenceville, N.J., recently announced the names of undergraduate students who have been placed on the dean’s list for the spring semester at the university. Area residents on that list were Julia Pendagast, a political...

Doggone Etiquette — My Dog Can’t Read! By Bardi McLennan A Word to the Dog: Have you chewed up any good books lately? I hope not! Okay, so dogs can’t read, but you’d be surprised how many good thin...

Three Points To the Editor: Three points about the budget impasse: First, no budget is better than a bad budget. It is a bad budget when the selectman’s half is cut below the bone trying to placate voters who, as believed by the Legislati...

Police Budget Metrics Compared To Neighboring Towns To the Editor: A letter ahead of this week’s fifth referendum on the town budget had an arresting title: “Cut the Police Budget.” The citizen who had broken the u...