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Highlights Of State Budget-Balancing Plan HARTFORD (AP) — Following are highlights of the budget-balancing plans submitted July 15 by Governor Dannel P. Malloy’s administration and the state Judicial Branch to the General Asse...

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...

Middle School Releases Fourth Quarter Honor Roll Newtown Middle School recently released its honor roll for the fourth marking period of the 2010-2011 school year. The following seventh and eighth grade students earned their place on the list. Ei...

DMV Offices Closing? Several Department of Motor Vehicle (DMV) offices and photo license renewal centers are slated to close soon, the latest targets of the governor’s budget battles. WTNH News 8 reported on July 13 that DMV officials vis...

Jane & Joseph Misencik Recognized By Masonicare Volunteers Jane and Joseph Misencik of Trumbull were recently honored by Masonicare for their more than 20 years of volunteer service to Masonicare at Newtown. The Luke A. Lockwood Award was presented t...

Occupation: I’m the Jill of all trades! I went to the Culinary Institute of America and was in the food profession for many years, mostly at private clubs. Then I went back to school and got my teaching certification. I ran an in-home...

Hospital Providing Free Skin Cancer Screening NEW MILFORD — The New Milford Hospital Regional Cancer Center is holding a free skin cancer screening on Saturday, July 30 from 9 am to noon by appointment only. These screenings will be provi...

Vroom Vroom! … Hitting The Race Track With Gervais Brothers By Andy Hutchison Did you ever want to zip around a car, or several cars, and speed excessively — well, without getting a ticket of course — and hug a turn in ...

Field Notes— Lightning, Thunder, And The Sleeping Dog By Curtiss Clark …Then it poured, a storm that walked on legs of lightning, dragging its shaggy belly over the fields. Writing this good makes the hair stand up on the back...

New Business-Related Laws Went Into Effect July 1 New laws affecting Connecticut businesses took effect July 1. *The general sales and use tax rate increases from 6 percent to 6.35 percent, and room occupancy tax increases from 12 percent to 15 per...