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Girls U8 The Lightning Strikes 3, Pink Dragons 0: The Lightning Strikes and Pinks Dragons had the honor of kicking off the spring session with the first game. Some rust was evident in the first half with neither side scoring. The great ...

Who’s Really Paying The ‘Fair’ Share? To the Editor: The top one percent, although paying 40 percent of our taxes, ($920 billion of the $2.3 trillion taken in 2011) is not fair enough for Obama. He says it puts too...

Middle Gate Celebrates Reading With Week Of Events By Eliza Hallabeck Middle Gate Elementary School celebrated a week of reading from Monday, April 9, to Friday, April 13, with multiple events, including a family book night, a visit from a nonfiction...

Time To Pray To the Editor: We are living in extremely chaotic times. With massive unemployment, government scandals, food and fuel prices escalating uncontrollably, and a national election campaign that is polarizing the country, it seems that we as...

Sherman Man Arrested On Bribery Charge  State police this week arrested a Sherman man on individual counts of bribery and offering an illegal gift in connection with his allegedly seeking to bribe a judge to influence the results of a grand jury in...

Memo From Administrators’ Rep Warns Of ‘Legal Action’ Against School Bd. By John Voket A letter from the school district administrators’ attorney to Superintendent Janet Robinson is being perceived by s...

Davis Throws No-No, Hawk Sluggers Win Two Blowouts By Andy Hutchison It was Friday the 13th but Newtown High pitcher Mike Davis was feeling lucky — and looking really good on the mound. Davis, only a sophomore, fired a no-hitter to lead N...

The Emerson College chapter of the National Broadcasting Society won three awards at the annual National Convention. Newtown resident and Emerson student Laura Bittman won for the NBS Chapter Website. The 49th Annual National Student Electronic Media...

Softball Team Blanked Three Times Newtown High School’s softball team was shutout by Masuk of Monroe, Bethel, and Brookfield this past week, and fell to 1-5 overall. The Nighthawks were no-hit by Masuk pitcher Tatum Buckley in a 13-0 setb...

Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla Offering Public Education Classes, Complimentary Vessel Inspections OXFORD — The US Coast Guard Auxiliary, Flotilla 24-12, based out of Oxford, will be offering several public education courses along with co...