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Heartbreaking Loss On Emotional Night For Hawks By Andy Hutchison In the eyes of Coach John Quinn, everything seemed to be in place for a win: The Newtown High School boys’ basketball team had a big home crowd on hand, his players were fo...

Town Historian’s Annual Lecture To Explore ‘The American Revolution In Newtown’ Newtown was a town torn apart by the Revolutionary War. Due in part to the popularity and commanding presence of the Reverend John Bea...

Library Talk On Keeping Your Eyesight DANBURY — There are many things that can go wrong with your eyesight: macular degeneration, cataracts, glaucoma, dry eye, retinal vascular occlusions, floaters, and more. The Danbury Library is hosti...

With Appreciation And Gratitude To the Editor: Have you ever passed judgment on volunteer firemen? Have you ever made a cynical comment or poked fun at them behind their back? You know, “There’s a cat in the tree and every vol...

Jeanne Smith A Million-Dollar Smile Jeanne Smith, 86, of Newtown, died peacefully, at home, December 23, after fighting a valiant yearlong battle against cancer. She was born in Maplewood, Mo., to Mae Ella and Charles Mullin. She graduated from ...

NHS Gymnasts Second In Season Opener Newtown High School’s first-year gymnastics team kicked off the season with a strong showing and earned second place, narrowly missing first, against host and winner, New Milford. New Milford compiled ...

The Origin Of The Species To the Editor: The species I refer to is the high cost of education, whether it be high school or beyond. I refuse to accept the ever higher costs and ever more unjust taxes as a fact of life of inflation, if you may. That i...

Telling Good Advice From Bad New Year’s resolutions are not supposed to be easy to keep. If some failing or deficiency follows us around for an entire year and then ventures to establish a foothold in a brand-new year, wishing to do bette...

The Vermont Relief Effort To the Editor: I would like to personally thank the residents of Newtown for their generous donations to the Vermont flood relief food drive. Ben Kugielsky and I flew food and other donated items to Vermont starting one week...

Llodra Believes ECS Task Force Proposals Would Reduce Newtown’s Reimbursement By John Voket First Selectman Pat Llodra said this week that if recommendations being made by a panel created by Governor Dannel P. Malloy to study how public s...