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On FFH & Contracts— A Marathon Council Meeting By John Voket Perhaps it was appropriate, as the clock neared 1 am Thursday, that two of the most contentious issues facing the community in recent years had generated the most lengthy and sp...

Grapplers Look To Pin The Best This Season By Andy Hutchison Expectations are high in the Newtown High School wrestling room this winter. The Nighthawks return most of last year’s postseason point-getters, and are working hard as they str...

Cheap Holiday Gift Ideas For Newtown’s Crafty Students By Emily Ashbolt Ah, the holidays. A time of family, good cheer, and gifts. While receiving a present is wonderful, it can sometimes be tough to know how to reciprocate, especially if...

Holiday Hours We will be closed Friday through Sunday, December 24-26, for the Christmas weekend. We will reopen with regular hours on Monday, December 27. We will then be closed again Friday through Sunday, December 31 to January 2, reopening on Mon...

Sugar Street Site— Hook & Ladder Presses Ahead With Firehouse Proposal By Andrew Gorosko Undeterred by its failure to secure a required wetlands/watercourses protection permit from the Inland Wetlands Commission (IWC) last week for its pr...

The Grinch Is In Newtown To the Editor: On Saturday, December 11, I went with my wife and two children to find the perfect Christmas tree. We went to several cut-your-own tree farms until we found the perfect tree. We cut it down, taking pictures the...

Marijuana Arrest Police report they received a complaint about marijuana use from a person at a Miya Lane address at about 9:17 am on December 11, so they investigated. Police said they consequently charged a boy under age 18 with possession of...

An Enthusiastic Reception To the Editor: There’s no place like home! Thank you, Newtown, for your exceptionally warm and enthusiastic reception of Newtown’s first ever magazine, The Newtowner. Newtown came out in droves to cel...

Hawks Skate To Preseason Title Newtown High School’s hockey team won the South-West Conference Preseason Jamboree on December 11. The Nighthawks skated past the New Fairfield-Immaculate co-op, Bethel-Brookfield-Danbury, and Joel Barlow to...

Chinese Ministry Of Education Delegates Visit NHS By Eliza Hallabeck Newtown was one stop of many for a visiting group of dignitaries from the Chinese Ministry of Education last week. Along with Newtown High School, the group also toured Yale Univers...