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It’s not good for all of our wishes to be fulfilled. Through sickness, we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.               ...

I’m always curious as a cat, and I love a little gossip, so with Presidents’ Day coming up on February 20, I can’t resist sharing a few of the 99 interesting facts about our US presidents that I found at randomhist...

Joseph John Ventrilio Owner Of Monroe Gardens And Greenhouses Joseph John Ventrilio, 95, of Sandy Hook, died February 11. He was born in Bridgeport, July 9, 1916, a son of Salvatore and Rosina Signore Ventriglia, and lived in Bridgeport, Fairfi...

Theater Review— Caught In The Great Migration Of The 1930s-40s, On Stage In Hartford By Julie Stern HARTFORD — February being Black History Month, the airwaves are once again broadcasting reminders of the days of the Civil Ri...

Corrections Superintendent of Schools Janet Robinson shared a report of her communications with Baldwin Media Marketing with the Board of Education at its meeting on Tuesday, February 7. It was reported that on July 13 there was a phone conversation ...

Kleinfeld’s Sample Sale An Experience To Treasure By Nancy K. Crevier Standing outside of a high fashion bridal salon in the wee hours of a January morning, with hundreds of anxious twenty- and thirty-something year olds, is not where Ne...

Hawk Skaters Blank Masuk Newtown High School’s hockey team earned a 5-0 shutout over Masuk of Monroe at Danbury Ice Arena on February 1. The Nighthawks got 25 saves from goaltender Mike Allwein, whose goals against average dropped to 2.4...

C.H. Booth Library To Add E-Book Borrowing To Services By Nancy K. Crevier After months of waiting for other library e-book borrowing services to come on board that might offer Newtown residents superior access and broader choices to the OverDrive se...

Boxwood Blight A New Concern For Landscapers And Gardeners By Nancy K. Crevier Gardeners need to be cautious, but there is no need to panic over the news that boxwood blight, caused by the fungus Cylindrocladium buxicola, has been identified in Fairf...

Last Supper Enactment Coming To Newtown This Year Immanuel Lutheran Players will bring one of the world’s most recognizable paintings to life next month with four performances of The Last Supper Enactment. It has been two years since the ...