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Recreation Tennis Sessions Newtown Parks & Recreation offers outdoor tennis programs for Tiny Tots and Juniors on the new tennis courts at Dickinson Park this summer. There are for week-long sessions for Tiny Tots and Juniors beginning Monday, June 2...

Reed’s Accelerated Readers Dunk Teachers In Celebration Of Reading By Eliza Hallabeck For the second year in a row, Reed Intermediate School’s Accelerated Reader students were rewarded for meeting their reading goals throughou...

School Board Adopts A 2011-12 Budget By Eliza Hallabeck The Board of Education finalized its 2011-12 budget at its meeting on Tuesday, June 21. Adjustments made during the meeting included removing the proposed new assistant principal position at New...

Rehab Tax Credit May Spur Job Creation, Historic Preservation HARTFORD — Thousands more historic buildings now qualify for Connecticut’s state historic rehab tax credits, as a result of new measures just signed into law by Gov...

Highway Department Lift Collapse Under Investigation By John Voket First Selectman Pat Llodra reported this week that a town Public Works pickup truck sustained some “repairable” damage after it became wedged in a hydraulic l...

A Recipe For Disaster To the Editor: I am the technology education teacher at Newtown Middle School. As students were presenting “Architectural Models” with the essential question, “What makes a shelter safe?,â&#x8...

Net Rippers Win Jersey Shore Tourney The Newtown Net Rippers, a U11 boys’ soccer team, won the Jersey Shore Champions Cup Tournament in mid June. The team allowed only one goal in four tourney games as the New Rippers beat the Randolph S...

Antoinette Octavio Gigliotti Loving And Caring Antoinette “Toni” Octavio Gigliotti, 94, died June 16, in Southbury, where she has resided at The Hearth Assisted Living since 2007. Previously, she had lived for 64 years in...

Making The Media Center Better To the Editor: The Newtown High School Library Media Center would like to publicly thank our community volunteers for the many hours they contributed this past year. Our volunteers are: Fran Ashbolt, Barbara French, Ja...

Clarence A. Peck Former Peck Plumbing Proprietor Clarence A. Peck, 84, of Stratford, beloved husband of Zennie Weaver Peck, died June 16, in Griffin Hospital, Derby. Mr Peck, the former proprietor of Peck Plumbing, was born in Middletown, ...