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Girls Seniors Senior Gold Sweeps at Longmeadow Jamboree: Senior Gold 8, Agawam, Mass 0; Senior Gold 8, Belchertown, Mass 2; Senior Gold 11, Longmeadow, Mass 4; Senior Gold 9, Tantasqua, Mass 3. On Saturday the Senior and Junior girls la...

The dispatchers at the Newtown Emergency Communications Center at Town Hall South report the following fire calls and the responders: Friday, May 11: 7:11 am, alarm, 41 West Street, Hook & Ladder and Dodgingtown responded; 8:05 am, hazardous mate...

Open Burning Season Extended Residents are reminded that the local open burning season has been extended to June 1. Due to near-drought conditions that occurred earlier this spring, open burning often was prohibited and thus the season was extended n...

A Day Of Service Benefits The Victory Garden By Kendra Bobowick Small drops swelled, then fell from irrigation lines running up and down the Victory Garden rows. Garden founder Harvey Pessin crouched beside The LaurelRock Company President Burt DeMar...

Wells Street, Bridgeport Tineke L. Sanabria purchased 462 Wells Street in Bridgeport from the estate of Hyang Ja Baklee. Lisa Solheim DeVellis and Tina Witthoefft Wessel of William Pitt Sotheby’s International Realty listed the prope...

Police To Heighten Seatbelt Enforcement By Andrew Gorosko For the two-week period from May 21 through June 3, Newtown Police Department will conduct a high-visibility traffic safety enforcement campaign known as “Click-It or Ticket, Day ...

NHS Softball Team Heads Toward Postseason By Andy Hutchison With their state tournament ticket punched with eight wins under their belts, Newtown High School’s softball team was jockeying for South-West Conference tournament playoff posit...

Bringing The Stream Back To Dickinson By Kendra Bobowick Residents may be able to enjoy a stream running through Dickinson Park and joining Deep Brook by the end of this summer. On May 14, the Board of Finance unanimously approved $336,000, which wi...

Friends Leave $2 Million For Animal Care By Kendra Bobowick Newtown’s animals will soon benefit from a roughly $2 million bequest from two late residents and friends, Frances Hair and Hazel Bouchard. Town Director of Finance Bob Tait exp...

Truck Into Tree About 3:20 am on May 12, motorist Karl W. Sieling, Jr, 21, of 22 Chestnut Hill Road was driving a 2005 Ford F-350 pickup truck on Lakeview Terrace, near Lakeview Terrace Extension, and then swerved to the left in order to avoid s...