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Early to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy and wealthy and dead.                          —James Thurber The art of medicine consists of keeping the patient amused, while nature heals the disease.    Â...

Board Postpones Vote On School Calendar By Eliza Hallabeck After Board of Education Chair Debbie Leidlein brought the 2011-12 school calendar up for discussion during the board’s budget workshop on Tuesday, January 17, to definitively de...

Currently On View *Nancy and Jim Larin have collected sculpture by Rhys Caparn, a Newtown Notable, and it is now on display near the circulation desk. Ms Caparn was a sculptor of great renown in the 20th Century, and the exhibit includes biograp...

‘Pancho Villa’ Collaborators To Visit Library Don and Darlene Jackson were married for 47 years at the time of Mr Jackson’s death in 2006. The couple, who moved into Newtown in 1969, had pets through the course of ...

Longtime Rehabilitation Dept Worker Named New Commissioner HARTFORD — Governor Dannel P. Malloy announced Dr Amy Porter of Coventry will serve as director of the newly merged state Bureau of Rehabilitative Services during a brief ceremon...

Regents Recommend Tuition Hike For State University System By Jacqueline Rabe Thomas and Keith M. Phaneuf ©The Connecticut Mirror The Board of Regents for Higher Education is recommending a 3.8 percent increase in tuition and fees at the four Conn...

Feds Target Insider Trading In Conn. NEW HAVEN (AP) — The US attorney for Connecticut says prosecutors in the state are targeting insider trading and similar financial crimes for the first time as part of a new focus on white-collar crimi...

Reed Welcomes Visiting Vermont Writer By Eliza Hallabeck Before Reed Intermediate School Principal Sharon Epple introduced Vermont-based writing expert Barry Lane during an assembly on Friday, January 13, Reed’s student council presented ...

Girls   8 & Unders 100 Medley Relay: First, (Emmi Desousa, Shayna Millard, Rylee Harrell, Gabriela Porto), 1:38.33. 25 Freestyle: Second, Desousa, 20.03. Third, Porto, 24.00. 25 Butterfly: First, Harrell, 20.22. 25 Backstroke: Seco...

Reed Conducts 2012 Geography Bee By Eliza Hallabeck “Welcome to the 2012 Geography Bee,” said Reed Intermediate School sixth grade teacher Maura Drabik before fifth and sixth grade students in Reed’s cafetorium on ...