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27th Annual Tree Lighting Memorials The Newtown Chamber of Commerce recently sponsored a fundraising drive for the 27th Annual Tree Lighting Ceremony and luminarias display that was presented at Ram Pasture on Friday, December 2. Donors have been co...

Russell Expects Track Teams To Be Strong Again By Andy Hutchison Newtown High School’s girls’ and boys’ indoor track and field teams begin the 2011-12 campaign with high hopes for success coming off second and thir...

State Police Investigate Garner Incident State police said they received a report on the morning of December 8 that an unnamed inmate at Garner Correctional Institution reportedly had made some threatening comments on the morning of December 7. State...

Special Needs Students Need Help, Not More Obstacles To the Editor: I’m concerned about special needs students, but equally concerned about their parents. Most of these parents realize that our country is based on the free market system w...

Two Conn. Mail Processing Centers Slated To Close HARTFORD (AP) — Two mail processing centers in Connecticut are among those slated to be closed as the US Postal Service seeks to trim costs and avert bankruptcy. The centers in Wallingford...

Thanks FEMA! To the Editor: Just wanted to give a quick shout-out to the folks at FEMA for helping to clean up the sticks and branches that were piled up next to my mailbox. I know it’s been a rough couple of years for those guys, what wi...

Piano, Drum Duo At Love & Knishes SOUTHBURY — Pianist and vocalist Jeanne Hinkson joins John Colella on drums in a delightful selection of songs of the season at the next Love & Knishes Lunch at noon on Wednesday, December 14. All area a...

Concerts Review— Seger, Reynolds, Larkin, Taylor All Turn In Memorable Concert Sets By John Voket From the cavernous confines of Mohegan Sun Arena, to the intimate dome of the Discovery Museum’s planetarium, and the intimate s...

Keep looking around, readers. No one was able to tell us where last week’s Bee’s Buck challenge could be found, so we are offering it again this week. If you think you know where it is, give us a call. The first five callers w...

Slick Highway State Police reported that on December 7 at about 8:31 am Cheryl Jablonowski, 29, of Beacon Manor Circle in Naugatuck was operating a 2010 Ford Fusion westbound on Interstate 84 just east of Exit 11, when she slid into the rear of ...