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NHS Habitat Club Creates T-Shirts More than 100 students at Newtown High School have purchased Housatonic Habitat for Humanity T-shirts, designed and sold by the school-based Newtown Habitat Club. Club founders and co-chairs are Hannah Maret and Nico...

Chemical Tanker Truck Flips Over On Exit 11 Off-Ramp By Andrew Gorosko A tractor-trailer tanker truck, which was hauling 65,900 pounds of a nonflammable resinous chemical during heavy rain on the morning of Saturday, June 2, skidded while negotiatin...

Lathrop School Of Dance Continues Traditions, While Celebrating The Contemporary, 60 Years Strong By Sherri Smith Baggett Virginia and Mack Lathrop, founders of Lathrop School of Dance, created a dancing school that embraced the children and studen...

A Petitioning Candidate To the Editor: Sadly, I did not get the party nomination for registrar of voters at Republican Town Committee Caucus. In order for the public to make their own choice who will be your Republican registrar, I will have to petit...

Track Standouts Compete In Open Newtown High School’s top track and field athletes competed in the State Open, among the best runners, jumpers, and throwers in the state, at Willowbrook Park in New Britain on Monday. The NHS girls scored ...

Senior Gold Lacrosse Team Wins Newtown’s Senior Gold lacrosse team defeated John Jay Senior Black 8-6 this past week. Newtown was ready to play and came out strong the first quarter, scoring five goals and picking up another two the secon...

Occupation: I’m a Foreign Service officer, a commissioned federal officer, employed by the US Department of State in Washington. The Foreign Service is the diplomatic service of the United States, and provides the majority of the staf...

Thursday, May 31: 7:02 pm, motor vehicle accident, near 151 South Main Street, Botsford responded; 8:21 pm, alarm, 3 Nunnawauk Road, Hook & Ladder responded. Friday, June 1: 9:23 am, medical assist/rescue, 12 Berkshire Road, Sandy Hook respo...

Lakeside Community— Riverside Residents Tell Police Of Suspicious Activity By Andrew Gorosko In response to some Riverside residents’ complaints about suspicious activity occurring in the vicinity of an old motel on Underhil...

Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You can’t get there by bus, only by hard work, risking...