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Railroad Responds To Wetlands Violation Notice By Andrew Gorosko Amid controversy over the Housatonic Railroad Company’s proposal to expand its solid waste handling at its Hawleyville rail terminal, the railroad has responded to the townâ...

Commentary— Health Care Players Must Pay By Lindsay Renick Mayer How Congress aims to reform America’s health care system can be literally a matter of life and death. For some industries, it could mean the difference between w...

*Legendary rocker ROGER DALTREY’s first solo tour since 1985 will stop at the MGM Grand Theater on Saturday, November 7, 2009 at 8:00 p.m.  Tickets to see the lead singer of The Who go on sale August 8 at 9 am and are $45, $60 and $70. *...

Free Masonicare BP Screening August 18 The Masonicare at Newtown Nursing Department will sponsor a free blood pressure screening Tuesday, August 18, from 10 am to noon, in the Lockwood Lodge Wellness Center at Masonicare at Newtown. The screening wil...

Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that your success does not depend upon the brilliancy and the impetuosity with which you take hold, but upon the everlasting and sanctified bulldoggedness with which you hang on after you have tak...

Upcoming Horse Shows Lion Hill Farm Easton’s Lion Hill Farm’s 2009 Horse Show Series dates are as follows (Sundays beginning at 8 am): September 13, October 4 and November 8. A trophy and six ribbons will be awarded in e...

BAHA’I FAITH OF NEWTOWN Contact Margo Deselin 241-5525; WintonFarms@aol.com Devotional meetings; spiritual discussion meetings; discussions of social issues from a spiritual perspective. The meetings are held at various locations in Newto...

Deer Culling Will Cost Real Money To the Editor: Deer cull advocate David Shugarts’s reported comments last week to the Board of Selectmen [“Selectmen Hear About USDA Deer Culling Program,” Bee, 8/7/09] included ...

Democracy’s Many Moving Parts It is an election year, and so once more we make an extra effort to understand our government, at least to an extent that will help us decide which way it ought to be moving. In dictatorships, autocracies, ol...

SCAN To Host Rick Daskam The Society of Creative Arts of Newtown will host Rick Daskam painting a landscape in oil at its next meeting, on Wednesday, August 12, at 7:30 pm. The program will be at Newtown Meeting House, 31 Main Street, and the public ...