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New Due Dates For Certain Items Please note effective October t, the following changes will be made to the length of check-out periods: *All NEW books will circulate for 14 days, with two renewals if no one else is waiting. Fines will be 15 cents per...

Dani Villa Villa is a senior captain on Newtown High School’s cross country team. Favorite part about running: “The team. We all go through the same pain, the same races, the same amount of work — so we all ha...

Ava Margaret Keil Kristen M. and Linc A. Keil of Newtown celebrate the birth of a daughter, Ava Margaret Keil, born September 9, at Danbury Hospital. Ava weighed 6 pounds, 13 ounces, and was 19½ inches in length at birth. Maternal grandparents ...

So despite the fact that she is afraid of heights, when her mother, MaryJac Reed, a science teacher at Fairfield Ludlowe High School, suggested in June 2009 that Kira take advantage of Chapter 27 Experimental Aircraft Association’s (EAA) ...

Does Newtown Need 160 Apartments At Fairfield Hills? To the Editor: Now under consideration is the sale or lease of the 193,563-square-foot Cochran House located on the Fairfield Hill campus facing Mile Hill South. The broker promoting the reuse of ...

UConn Women At NYA Members of the University of Connecticut women’s basketball team will be at Newtown Youth Academy for the Pursuit Beyond camp, October 8 and 9 from 5:30-8:30 pm. The Huskies will run the camp for girls in grades 4-8 the...

Jewish Burial Rituals SOUTHBURY — Why are Jewish people buried in a plain pine box? What’s the story about all of those rocks on the top of the gravestones? The Jewish Cemetery Association of Greater Waterbury will host a foru...

Senior services for Newtown seniors are available at the Multipurpose Building on Riverside Road in Sandy Hook. The Senior Center is under the auspices of the Commission on Aging. The center is run by Senior Services Director Marilyn Place. For more ...

Our Advocate To the Editor: How very sad for the children of Newtown, their parents, and taxpayers to lose Kathy Fetchick as a member of the Board of Education. She was our advocate. She was conscientious, organized, tireless, and honest. She always ...