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Layaways Helping Consumers Buy Without Interest, Service Charges WALLINGFORD — As a growing number of families struggle to prevent sliding further into debt, retailers are trying to help them with a payment option from days gone by: layaw...

Fraser-Woods Art Exhibit To Benefit Kevin’s Community Center Area artists from Newtown, Southbury, Trumbull, Litchfield, and New Rochelle are teaming together to raise funds for Kevin’s Community Center, a free medical clinic ...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY December 3 Connor Patrick Moran, Age 8 December 10 Maria Alexis Ringes, Age 10 Deadline for the December 11 issue is Tuesday, December 8, at 4 pm. To include your name in The Birthday Cake, send your name, address, pho...

Congratulations And Good Luck! To the Editor: I would like to commend the Newtown Youth Football seventh grade team on their advancing to the American Youth Football National Championship next weekend in Florida. It is exciting to know that one of ou...

25th Annual Tree Lighting Memorials The Newtown Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring a fundraising drive for the 25th Annual Tree Lighting Ceremony and luminarias display that will be presented at Ram Pasture on December 4. Donors may also contribute $1...

Stands In Police Station Lobby The Newtown Police Department is again collecting new items of small apparel as part of its “Mitten Tree” holiday gift program for needy people in the area. People interested in participating are...

Traffic And Parking Rules Set For Christmas Tree Event The town’s annual Christmas tree lighting ceremonies at the Ram Pasture are scheduled for the evening of Friday, December 4. The festivities are slated to start at 6:30 pm, with the t...

The Newtown Historical Society will participate in the Annual Holiday House Tour by hosting an open house at its headquarters, The Matthew Curtiss House, at 44 Main Street, on Sunday, December 6. The house-museum, a fine example of Connecticut saltbo...

Lillian Bittman Named Chair— School Board Hears About Freedom And Selects New Leaders By Eliza Hallabeck New members joined the Board of Education Tuesday, December 1, and the board began its new term by listening to Reed Intermediate stu...

A Golden Anniversary Jesse Cabral and Maria Jade Martins met through family friends in Portugal during the mid 1950s. They dated for 2½ years, and were married on December 6, 1959. The Cabrals, who moved to Newtown in 1988, will celebrate their gold...