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Lady Hawks Summer Basketball Camp The Lady Hawks Girls’ Summer Basketball League is open to players ages 9-15. Bantam, Intermediate, and Junior girls are all eligible to participate. The teams play on Tuesday and Wednesday nights at the R...

Former Newtown Woman Dies In Fall From Balcony ST PETERSBURG, FLA. — Police are investigating the untimely death of a former Newtown woman who fell three stories to the ground from a condominium balcony early on the morning of Saturday, J...

Big Fish Moves On From His Little Pond By R. Scudder Smith About ten years ago, give or take one or two, the late Jim Crick thought it would be fun to put a few koi into Hawley Pond and, as a member of the board of the Newtown Village Cemetery, owne...

Getting A Good Cause Back On The Road To the Editor: In the spirit of appreciation, the Make A Home Foundation would like to extend our sincerest thanks to Nick Kopcik, owner of NJK Automotive-Sunoco on South Main Street in Newtown. Mr Kopcik grac...

New Book Hopes To Reduce The Anxiety Of Mathematics Faced By Many By Shannon Hicks Famously, for Forrest Gump, life is like a box of chocolates. For Chuck Paulsen, life is like a fabulous chocolate cranberry oatmeal cookie. Mr Paulsen sees math as so...

Resource Seminar On ALS Slated In Bethel BETHEL — The Westchester office of the Muscular Dystrophy Association’s-ALS Division is presenting a greater Danbury area ALS Summit on Research and Resources to heighten awareness of t...

Babe Ruth Baseball Hosts Jimmy Fund Tournament Newtown Babe Ruth Baseball will host the annual Jimmy Fund Tournament this month. The tourney was scheduled to get underway on Wednesday and will run through June 23. Teams from across Western Connectic...

Francis J. McNamara, Jr Francis J. McNamara, Jr, 84, a prominent Connecticut trial attorney and philanthropist, died June 8, in Vero Beach, Fla. He was born in Boston, November 30, 1927. Mr McNamara is survived by his loving wife of 26 years, Lois ...

Briscoe Baldwin Lang, Sr Briscoe Baldwin Lang, Sr, 79, of Newtown, died peacefully in Northport, N.Y., June 6, after a short illness. His wife Marilynn and his three children were with him. Mr Lang was born December 27, 1932, in Glen Ridge, N.J., the...

June Gynecologic Cancer Support Group Features Mini Health Fair FARMINGTON — Women with ovarian, endometrial, cervical, or any other gynecologic cancers are welcome to participate in a free support group at the University of Connecticut H...