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A 10-year-old boy from the Newtown Pine Tree Hill Road area was found after wandering through acres and acres of woodland. Newtown Police Officers Maryhelen McCarthy and John McClusky walked down our laneway toward our bridge and saw the frightened b...

Advocate Resigns Special Ed Panel, Cites Frustration With Superintendent By John Voket Suzanne Lang, who formed a private advocacy group to support parents of local special education students and who chaired a special education advisory board formed...

Single Stream Recycling Comes To Newtown Newtowners this week received what was headlined as “Good News” in their tax bills. The town has announced that its recycling program is changing to single stream recycling as of July ...

NHS Valedictorian Speaks At Middle Gate, Receives Scholarship Newtown High School’s 2011 class valedictorian Drew Robinson returned to his educational roots last month and gave a short speech to the fourth graders finishing up their elem...

Homes For Heroes To the Editor: Building Homes for Heroes would like to thank you for being part of a successful national fundraiser: Building Homes for Heroes recipient Army Specialist Brendan Marrocco of Staten Island moved into his new smart home ...

The Fourth of July is just around the corner, and who doesn’t like fireworks? I like to think of them as loud and giant fireflies that appear once a year, but that’s just cat talk. Some of my canine pals, though, are not looki...

Breakfast Benefits Hospice To the Editor: Wow — what a morning the Newtown Chapter of Regional Hospice had on June 15! The generosity of everyone who attended and/or donated items for this event is truly overwhelming. This was the largest...

Rep Murphy Applauds President’s Manufacturing Plan WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congressman Chris Murphy applauded President Obama’s launch of the Advanced Manufacturing Partnership (AMP), which will join industry, universit...

US Navy Fire Controlman Third Class Michael P. Daily, son of Deborah and Thomas Daily of Sandy Hook, graduated from the Aegis Training & Readiness Center at the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren, Va., after eight months of intensive instruction....

Freeman McNeil To Sign Autographs In Sandy Hook On July 9, Legendary New York Jet running back Freeman McNeil will be at the grand opening of Ice Cream Heaven in Sandy Hook Center to sign autographs from 2 to 4 pm. McNeil starred for the Jets for an ...