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Racing To The Podium Coming off a seventh-place finish in the season-opener at Stafford Motor Speedway on April 29, Newtown-based Gervais Brothers Racing and driver Michael Gervais Jr., turned up the heat once again on Friday night, May 11, posting t...

Alvin W. Lewis Alvin W. Lewis, 95, of Newtown, died peacefully at home, May 12, in the company of his family. He was born February 26, 1917, in Scranton, Penn., the son of T. Walter and Gladys Ketchum Lewis. He married Vida Arline Davies on December...

In A World Full Of Distractions, Experts Offer Tips On Focus By Nancy K. Crevier The world is full of technological distractions that vie for attention every day. Juggling those interruptions is a skill. Too much disruption and nothing is accomplishe...

Senior services for Newtown seniors are available at the Multipurpose Building on Riverside Road in Sandy Hook. The Senior Center is under the auspices of the Commission on Aging. The center is run by Senior Services Director Marilyn Place. For infor...

NICE To Conduct Japan Workshop An “Introduction to Japan” workshop has been scheduled by the Newtown International Center for Education (NICE) for Thursday, May 24, from 3:30 pm to 4:30 pm in the Newtown High School cafetorium...

A Book, A Wedding, And A Musical Add Up To A Busy Summer For Newtown Native By Nancy K. Crevier To say that 2012 has so far been “a very good year,” as Newtown resident Brett Boles professed in a May 11 interv...

Friday, May 18 Planning & Zoning Commission special meeting, 9 am, Newtown Municipal Center, 3 Primrose Street. Doggie Fun Zone, 10 am–dusk (weather permitting), Cassio Pet Resort-Training Center, 173 Mt Pleasant Road, $12, timed eve...

Reminder: Bone Marrow Drive Scheduled For Monday, May 21 Newtown High School’s Peer Leadership group has once again scheduled a bone marrow drive at the school. This year’s drive will run from 8 am until 2:30 pm on Monday, May...

Three readers were able to locate last week’s Bee’s Buck (inset), including Edgar Beers, who was able to walk to the edge of his property and look at his driveway marker on Hawleyville Road. Joe Farrell and Jeff McKee also kne...

1940 Census Information Valued By Researchers By Nancy K. Crevier With the April 2 release by the National Archives of the 1940 United States Census, genealogy researchers have one more tool to assist in tying together the loose ends of family histor...