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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...

Every man, every woman carries in heart and mind the image of the ideal place, the right place, the one true home, known or unknown, actual or visionary. —Edward Abbey I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves â&#x...

Rep Hovey Impressed With Curtis Packaging State Representative DebraLee Hovey, who represents about 1,000 families in one southerly Newtown voting district, visited Curtis Packaging Corporation June 21 to view the company’s operation and ...

Nicholas Stephen Summo An Angel Watching Over All Nicholas Stephen Summo, 24, of Sandy Hook, died peacefully, June 27. He was the son of Barbara B. Summo and Anthony J. Summo. He is also survived by his loving brother Anthony V. Summo, an...

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...

Michael Rhine & Jessica Oswald Sandy Hook residents Linda and Fred Oswald announce the engagement of their daughter, Jessica Eileen Oswald, to Michael Ward Rhine, son of Louise and Rowland Rhine of Colonial Beach, Va. A November 2011 wedding is ...

Newtown Support Groups Friday, July 1       AA, Newtown United Methodist Church, 92 Church Hill Road, 8 pm, beginners meeting, open discussion. Saturday, July 2     Daily Reflections meeting, St Rose School (Monsignor Conroy Roo...

Helping Kids Stay In Touch With Nature To the Editor, It was a treat last week to read about Emily Korth, champion rock climber at Clemson University. Thank you for highlighting young athletes who are achieving in nontraditional sports. Rock climbi...

Theater Review— Richter Is Off To A Good Start With ‘Gypsy’ By Julie Stern DANBURY — Rainy weather delayed our getting to see Musicals at Richter’s production of Gypsy until the middle weeke...

‘Made In The USA’ Room Lets Hollandia Customers Buy American BETHEL — Below a large American flag pegged to the ceiling at Hollandia Nurseries Gift & Garden Center on Stony Hill Road in Bethel is a room filled wit...