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Babe Ruth Fall Champs Crowned Newtown Black defeated Newtown Blue 10-9 in the finals of the Babe Ruth 13-15 division this past week. Newtown Black came back from an 8-3 deficit by scoring seven runs in the fourth through sixth innings to avert the up...

Jump-Ropers Sought For Newtown Team Pam Patterson, the coach for Newtown’s Moon Jumpers jump rope team, said this week she is hoping a tryouts session scheduled for Tuesday, November 23, at Middle Gate Elementary School, will bring out en...

Full-Day Kindergarten Discussion Continues By Eliza Hallabeck & Kendra Bobowick Using next school year’s projected enrollment, Superintendent of Schools Janet Robinson spoke to the space needs and costs surrounding the implementation of ...

Dorothy Mae Hyde Lafferty Beloved Mother Dorothy Mae (Elliott) Hyde Lafferty of Norwich died peacefully, November 15, at Masonicare of Newtown, after a long, courageous battle with cancer. She was born in Ridge Farm, Ill., September 7, 1928, to ...

Man Seriously Injured In Head-On Crash By Andrew Gorosko A New Milford man was a patient in Danbury Hospital on the afternoon of Wednesday, November 17, recuperating from injuries he received in a serious two-vehicle head-on collision on Route 34 (Be...

Rollover At about 5 am on November 14, police responded to a report of a rollover accident that had occurred near 277 South Main Street. Police said that when they arrived at the scene, neither the driver, Ian Doerr, 20, of 49 Spring Trail, nor ...

NHS Field Hockey Team Holds Fundraiser And After School Program Newtown High School’s field hockey program has been hard at work on and off the field this fall. The Nighthawks played a breast cancer awareness game to benefit the American...

Aubrey Nicole Wright Shari and Dan Wright of Newtown proudly announce the birth of Aubrey Nicole Wright, born September 2, at Norwalk Hospital. Aubrey weighed 8 pounds, 9 ounces and was 20½ inches in length at birth. She joins a sister, Alyssa,...

*Newtown based THE JAY WILLIE BAND will be performing the first of two shows at Hot Shots Grille this weekend. BTW, the restaurant at 130 Mount Pleasant Road has been renamed Arturo’s Cantina at Hot Shots… which means The Jay Willi...

Anthem Rate Hearings HARTFORD – Several Connecticut health insurance policyholders and elected officials are urging regulators to reject Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield’s request for a 20 percent rate increase. The Connectic...