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Slalom Water Skiing Course Proposal Slated For Discussion By Andrew Gorosko The state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has scheduled a public informational meeting on a proposal to create a marked slalom course for water skiing along the ...

Championship Bound? Playoff battles for Newtown High School’s spring spots teams are ongoing this week as the girls’ and boys’ lacrosse, girls’ and boys’ tennis, baseball, and softball teams...

Nighthawk Sluggers Can’t Overcome Pomperaug By Andy Hutchison Newtown High School’s baseball team entered into the South-West Conference Tournament as the eighth seed and faced the task of trying to upset top-seeded Pomperaug ...

Little Lesson #14: How To Tell A Joke By Nancy K. Crevier Life is a series of tasks. Some are easier to perform than others. Some are downright tricky. Some tasks we have mastered, while others remain, for one reason or another, a mystery. The N...

Poverty Hollow Road Gene Verett and Tina Kish purchased 75 Poverty Hollow Road from Roger and Karen Michel. Karen Michel of William Pitt Sotheby’s International Realty listed the property, which was sold by Lisa Gallagher of William ...

Summer Baseball Academy The Newtown Parks and Recreation Summer Baseball Academy, directed by Newtown High School baseball Coach Matt Memoli, will be held at the NHS baseball field June 27 through July 1 from 9 am to noon. The program is for boys and...

NMS Student Team Places First In STEM Competition BALTIMORE, MD. — A Newtown Middle School eighth grade team that entered the eCybermission 2010-11 Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) competition sponsored by US Army w...

Occupation: I’m a full-time student at WestConn, studying mathematics. I’m currently able to go to school on the GI Bill. I served from 2005 to 2009, stationed at Fort Siller in Oklahoma, and I was a year in Kuwait and Ira...

Performance Quality Improvement PQI Meeting: In our effort to create quality programs responsive to community needs, Newtown Youth & Family Services invites all interested members of the community to the monthly PQI (Performance Quality Improvem...

Better Think Positive: Pessimism Can Block Therapy By Lauran Neergaard WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) — Spine surgeon Anders Cohen puts a lot of stock in patients’ expectations of pain relief. He prefers to operate only on those who â&...