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As a matter of fact, former Newtown Bee assistant editor Kaaren Valenta (now merrily settled in Florida) tells me that her Chicago-based sister visited Florida recently and is ready to put her Chicago home on the market and join Kaaren. Chicago is en...

Concert Will Raise Money For School In Cambodia By Eliza Hallabeck Last year a group of high school students, called Two Schools One Song, exceeded expectations and raised $15,000 to build a school in Cambodia. Now, with that school under constructi...

Energy Commission Chairman Amped Up About Photovoltaics By John Voket Sustainable Energy Commission Chairman Dan Holmes believes all Newtown needs is one successful photovoltaic project, presumably at a school or other municipal facility. A field of...

Council OKs Appeal Of Edona Commons Decisions By Andrew Gorosko First Selectman Pat Llodra said this week that the town plans to pursue having the Connecticut Supreme Court accept for legal review two recent Connecticut Appellate Court decisions that...

Reed Sends ‘Valentines For Troops’ By Eliza Hallabeck  Two lines of students worked to prepare boxes of letters and collected goods for the Valentines For Troops program on Friday, January 28. The boxes were each decorated an...

Mavericks Capture Basketball Tournament Title The Connecticut Mavericks fourth grade boys’ basketball team captured the 25th Annual Yorktown AC Hoops Tournament Championship held during the weekend of January 29-30 at the Brewster Sports...

William Taft: The Largely Forgotten President While widely known for his sizable girth of 300 pounds, and haunted by anecdotes of becoming stuck in the bathtub, William Howard Taft was a serious public servant, an effective President, and an importan...

Best Friends Shared Their Eagle Scout Court Of Honor By Shannon Hicks Two young men who have been best friends all their lives recently combined their Eagle Scout Courts of Honor, celebrating an achievement in a dual ceremony at Newtown Meeting House...

Cable TV Woes To the Editor: My beef is not specifically with Charter, although they are indeed my cable provider...a pragmatic old timer, I, but hardly a techie. When the television signal briefly stops, and/or is briefly pixilated and/or audio and...

Following Winter Break, Newtown Friends Of Music 2010-11 Season To Resume With Walden Chamber Piano Quintet Founded in 1997, the Boston-based Walden Chamber Players has garnered a reputation for being one of the most exciting and versatile chamber g...