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Volunteers Sought For Board And Commission Vacancies First Selectman Pat Llodra is asking eligible residents to step forward to serve on various appointed commission. There are current vacancies on: *Commission on Aging has an open alternate positio...

*Tickets have been on sale for a few weeks for the 2012 Country Megaticket, which will get you into the LADY ANTEBELLUM, BRAD PAISLEY, RASCAL FLATTS, JASON ALDREAN and TOBY KEITH shows all coming to the Comcast Theatre this summer, and now more ticke...

Finding Community At The Senior Center To the Editor: My grandparents ran a large chicken farm during their retirement years in the 1950s. It kept them very busy until they passed away. At the time I was a young girl. I never asked them if they were...

*** For the second time in a week, Newtown was hit with a heavy rainstorm. The Saturday storm caused even more flooding than the one the previous Tuesday. The Housatonic River was several feet above flood state, bringing water into several homes in S...

For police reports Burglary/Larceny Police received a report on the night of April 2 that a home on Pocono Road in Hawleyville had been burglarized, involving the theft of some electronics from the premises. Pocono Road links Mt Pleasant Road to...

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.                             —Scott Adams The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mi...

NHS Suspicious Package Incident A False Alarm By Andrew Gorosko What appeared to be a suspicious package, which was spotted unattended on the floor in a corridor at Newtown High School on Wednesday morning, turned out to be a harmless birthday gift t...

Town Officials Consider Hawleyville Sewer System Expansion By Andrew Gorosko Town officials are rethinking the initial concept behind the Hawleyville sanitary sewer system in considering whether some rationale other than economic development should ...

Signs From An Angel To the Editor: To date, we have collected $204.45 in our goal to collect returnable cans and bottles to raise money for Relay For Life this year. I also would like to thank our “Sign Angel” — my...

‘Hello, My Garden!’ The Horticulture Club of Newtown will host “Hello, My Garden! or, The Weird and Wonderful Spring of 2012” on Thursday, April 12. The free program will be in the lower meeting room of...