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What Do Republicans Want To Do? To the Editor: Taxes: Republicans will look at all fixed costs. Specifically, we will look at self-insuring versus an outside insurer. We will look at the costs of defined contribution plan, much like a 401(k) plan, v...

Net Rippers Tear Through Tourney The Newtown Net Rippers were the U10 boys’ soccer champs at the Columbus Day Tournament in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. this past weekend. The Net Rippers played five games and four were shutout wins. Newtown defeat...

A Powerful Reminder To the Editor: My wife and I were both moved by the fine article by Nancy Crevier about the late Lieutenant Thomas Carney [“Late State Trooper From Newtown Memorialized,” 10/9/09]. His family, and Adrian St...

Lego® Replica Of Old State House Has Returned Home HARTFORD — Connecticut’s Old State House has welcomed back its Lego® alter ego for permanent display at the museum.  Once an attraction at the Old State House in the 1980s,...

Theater Review— Two American Greats Breathe Great Life Into Westport’s Season Closer By Julie Stern WESTPORT — Sir David Hare is one of England’s most respected living playwrights, whose works tackle th...

Growing A Greener Real Estate Market If you are keeping a catalog of silver linings to the economic downturn, add this to the list: the dramatic slowdown in the housing market has cleared the agendas of local land use agencies sufficiently for some s...

To the Editor: I encourage [Newtowners] to vote for Debbie Leidlein for the Newtown Board of Education in November. We have worked together as community service volunteers for over four years now, and I am consistently impressed by her dedication and...

AP Poll Results– Newtown Mom Among Parents Opposing Swine Flu Vaccine (AP) Jackie Shea of Newtown, the mother of a 5-year-old boy named Emmett, responded recently to an Associated Press poll saying the new swine flu vaccine is too new and...

To the Editor: I am compelled to comment on Bill Furrier’s letter to the Hive a few weeks ago [“A Plan For Better Government,” Letter Hive, 10/2/09].  I agree that Newtown has grown and the analogy of this now be...

The Republicans’ Collaborative Vision To the Editor: We Republicans believe it’s “Nicer in Newtown” despite what IPN would have us believe. We have looked at the first and second tenet of IPNâ€&#x9...