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Newtown Responds To The Great Pumpkin Challenge By Eliza Hallabeck & Shannon Hicks Mackenzie Page began receiving jack-o’-lanterns for The Great Pumpkin Challenge on Saturday, October 29. It was her original plan to collect the carved pum...

Senior services for Newtown seniors are available at the Multipurpose Building on Riverside Road in Sandy Hook. The Senior Center is under the auspices of the Commission on Aging. The center is run by Senior Services Director Marilyn Place. For infor...

I have always been one cool cat, but since Saturday, I have been an extraordinarily cool cat, thanks to Storm Alfred. I have all my toes on all of my paws crossed that by the time most of Newtown reads this, we will all be wallowing in the warmth of ...

Pancake Breakfast At Four Corners BETHEL — A pancake breakfast that was planned for Sunday, October 30, has been rescheduled for Sunday, November 6, at Stony Hill Volunteer Fire Department, 59 Stony Hill Road (Route 6). Breakfast will be ...

Michael F. Castagna Owned Botsford Drive-In Michael F. Castagna, 84, of Newtown, died November 1, in Danbury Hospital. Mr Castagna was born in Germantown, Penn., December 30, 1926, a son of Nancy (Maluasso) and Anthony Castagna. He was the...

Don’t Forget To Turn Your Clocks Back! Eastern Standard Time Returns Sunday At 2 AM

When Nature Throws A Curve, Newtown’s Police, Firefighters Adapt By Andrew Gorosko During the freak October snowstorm that cut electric service to nearly everyone in Newtown, town police routinely made a point while patrolling of looking...

Food And Dining Possibilities: We Found ‘Em By Nancy K. Crevier Like many businesses, it has been lights out for Newtown eateries since the freak snowstorm of October 29–30 cut power to 97 percent of the town’s CL&...

Schools Closed Until Monday By John Voket “This is ground zero.” Those words summed up the condition of electrical infrastructure in Newtown and Monroe, according to Ken Bowes, CL&P’s vice president of energy deliv...

Live, From The State Capitol, It’s Bipartisanship! By Mark Pazniokas © The Connecticut Mirror Gov. Dannel P. Malloy tried to keep the good vibrations going for another day October 27 as he signed a bipartisan $626 million jobs-growth bil...