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NHS Alumni Softball Game Newtown High School’s Annual Alumni Softball Game will be held Wednesday, June 23 at 7 pm under the lights at Treadwell Park. Former players are asked to go to the field at 6:30 pm to prepare for a scrimmage agai...

UConn Master Gardeners Available For Seasonal Answers Summer is almost upon us and the University of Connecticut Master Gardener Program has student interns available across the state to answer gardening questions. Master Gardeners can help resident...

A Setback For The Environment To the Editor: New legislation would have prevented the construction of a solid waste facility (SWF) on top of the Pond Brook Aquifer by providing the DEP with improved guidelines to not only consider the proposed SWF pe...

Crushing The Competition Newtown’s U10 baseball team, the Roy’s Auto Service Orange Crush, recently won the spring championship by defeating the Connecticut Ear, Nose & Throat Golden Eagles 7-4. The team was led by the terrif...

‘LEAP’ Into Education At The Learning Experience The Learning Experience (TLE), a newly constructed daycare center that helps children develop intellectually, socially, and physically, opened in Plaza South on South Main Stree...

Murphy  Hoops Camp The 29th Annual Murphy Basketball Camp offers sessions for boys and girls ages 7-15 at the Newtown Youth Academy this summer. Session I: July 6-9, 8:30 am to 12:30 pm. Cost: $100 Session II: July 12-16, 9 am to 2 pm. Cost: $150 Se...

National Ham Radio Field Day BROOKFIELD — Ham radio operators in the greater Danbury area and neighboring communities will demonstrate their emergency communications capabilities Saturday, June 26, during a national Field Day event that ...

Collection Of Andy Warhol Photos Donated To Housatonic Museum Of Art BRIDGEPORT — The Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts has donated 150 Polaroids taken by the late contemporary artist to the Housatonic Museum of Art through the Andy ...

Four Charged With Violations At Corner Parking Lot Following incidents that occurred on June 10 at a lot on the corner of Wasserman Way and Oakview Road, which has been used as an informal parking lot by some Newtown High School students, police iss...

Africa’s Children Cry Out To the Editor: In several of the far-off countries of Africa, hundreds and even thousands of children of all ages are dying due to uncontrolled tribal strife and more recently an extended drought. These kids have...