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Legislators, School Board Discuss Special Education Issues By Eliza Hallabeck As part of the Board of Education’s meeting on Tuesday, January 10, State Representatives DebraLee Hovey (R-112) and Christopher Lyddy (D-106) again joined the ...

Swim Team Wins Two In A Row Raises Funds In Memory Of Greg Chion By Andy Hutchison Newtown High School’s boys’ swimming and diving team topped visiting Bethel on January 6 and host Oxford on January 10. Perhaps more significan...

P&Z Adds New Flexibility To Subdivision Regulations By Andrew Gorosko Planning and Zoning Commission (P&Z) members have added wording to the town’s subdivision regulations that would allow the P&Z to waive certain subdivision regulations ...

Frutos Promoted To First Degree Black Belt Rebecca Frutos, a 17 year-old Newtown resident and student of Porco’s Karate Academy, has been training in the Korean martial art of Tang Soo Do for the past eight years. Last month she was promo...

Start Impeachment Hearings For Obama To the Editor: The following letter was sent to Congressman Murphy this date. Dear Congressman Murphy: I request you start impeachment hearings on the President of the United Sates, under Article 2, Section 2 of ...

Gilbert Norman Nelson Navy Veteran Established Lilla Fund To Aid The Neediest Gilbert Norman Nelson, 82, of New Milford, died unexpectedly at his home, December 24. He was born August 16, 1929, in Brooklyn, N.Y., the son of Andrea (Goethesen) an...

Free Prostate Screenings, Mammograms Offered By St V’s BRIDGEPORT — A free prostate cancer screenings will be offered by St Vincent’s SWIM Prostate Cancer Institute on Tuesday, January 17, at the Family Health Cent...

Many Helped With The Mitten Tree To the Editor: On January 1 the Newtown Police Department successfully completed its 11th annual “Mitten Tree” collection with overwhelming response from so many caring people! As always, we ha...