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House Burglary Sometime between 9 pm on June 22, and 5 pm on June 26, someone illegally entered a home on Toddy Hill Road, near its intersection with Quarry Ridge Road, and stole approximately $1,900 worth of jewelry, police report. Police are i...

VFW Scholarship Recipients Admire Veterans By Kendra Bobowick “Everyone wrote a good essay,” said Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 308 Commander Dan Kearns. “These are the four winners …” who receiv...

Selectmen Review Road Woes, Pending Projects By John Voket It was all about Newtown’s highways and byways at the only Board of Selectmen meeting scheduled this July. The July 5 meeting, with Selectman William Furrier absent, provided an o...

Grace Potter, Peter Frampton Big Crowd Pleasers At Ives By John Voket It’s three down, six to go for the Ives Concert Park and its Union Savings Bank Summer Concert Series. The popular regional venue opened Monday, June 27, with a double ...

State Launches Online Training For Hazardous Waste Producers HARTFORD — The Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has launched a new online training course to assist businesses in meeting the initial and annual trainin...

BAHA’I FAITH OF NEWTOWN Contact Margo Deselin 203-241-5525; Mdeselin@gmail.com Devotional meetings; spiritual discussion meetings; discussions of social issues from a spiritual perspective. The meetings are held at various locations in Ne...

Police Expand DUI Enforcement On Holiday Weekend Police will conduct specialized roving patrols during the Independence Day holiday weekend in seeking to take drunk drivers off local roads. Police Sergeant John Cole said that police will have extra o...

Inferno Second In Tourney The Newtown Inferno baseball team earned second place in the 11 year old Jimmy Fund Tournament this past Sunday in Bethel. The Inferno won the first two games of the tournament, 6-3 over Danbury and 15-0 over Oxford behind t...

Art Exhibits ______________________ Brookfield Craft Center, 286 Whisconier Rd/Rte 25, Brookfield; 203-775-4526. Through Aug 14: “A Legacy of Fine Craft,” stories & works by 50+ accomplished teaching artists in craft mediu...

American Pride In Sandy Hook Center By Shannon Hicks Like Main Street before it, and even the center of Brookfield before that, Sandy Hook Center is now host to a few dozen American flags mounted on utility poles. The arrival of the flags adds a tou...