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National Emergency Alert System Test Planned By Andrew Gorosko To thoroughly test the national Emergency Alert System (EAS), federal officials will conduct a full-scale test of the system at 2 pm eastern standard time on Wednesday, November 9. The fu...

Children’s Programs *Instrument Petting Zoo: Children ages 3 and up can explore the violin and cello in this hands-on demonstration with music educator Kaite D’Angelo on Sunday, November 6, from 3 to 4 pm. Katie will talk abou...

Halloween Fun At The Senior Center By Nancy K. Crevier Tri-colored hair, over the top makeup, and brightly colored outfits scared away the gloom of the day as members of the Newtown Senior Center gathered Thursday, October 27, for a ghoulish turkey l...

Newtown Support Groups Friday, November 4        AA, Newtown United Methodist Church, 92 Church Hill Road, 8 pm, beginners meeting, open discussion. Saturday, November 5      Daily Reflections meeting, St Rose School (Monsigno...

Utility Committed To 99 Percent Power Restoration By Saturday Midnight By John Voket Newtown’s CL&P liaison Jacqui Borges-King told town officials at the Wednesday morning emergency operations briefing that Newtown can expect 99 percent o...

Change Of Plans: Town Players To Open Production Of Pulitzer Prize-Winning ‘Buried Child’ November 11 On November 11, Town Players of Newtown will open Sam Shepard’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Buried Child, a family d...

Finding A Retreat At The Library By Kendra Bobowick Seated at a long table awash with daylight from the floor-to-ceiling windows in the C.H. Booth Library’s front room, Gavin Preis looked at e-mails on his laptop. A cluster of residents s...

Snowstorm Spawns Huge Volume of Fire Calls By Andrew Gorosko The October 29 storm that dumped a heavy, wet snow on the area caused countless trees and tree limbs to fall, often falling over suspended utility lines, including electric lines. The local...

It’s been an unusual week of bending and flexing, so along those lines let’s bend and flex once more, with a bonus at the end. This photo has been the challenge for two weeks already, yes, but no one has been able to figure ou...

Aulos Ensemble, Sunday At Edmond Town Hall Over the past three decades, The Aulos Ensemble has established a reputation as a pioneering period-instruments group, not only exploring widely the literature of Baroque chamber music, but setting a rarely ...