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Admirals Split Double Header The Admirals’ American Legion baseball team split a double header with Naugatuck at Newtown High School on July 18. Game results are as follows: Game One: Naugatuck 8, Admirals 1: Bob Manfreda singled in the ...

By Ray Shaw A considerable contingent of able-bodied ballist converged on McLaughlin Vineyards on Saturday to continue the ’09 vintage base ball season and host the New London Thames club at the old ball yard. The two clubs met at Fort Tr...

Corrections Personnel Hired Despite Freeze HARTFORD (AP) — Connecticut’s Department of Correction is hiring new prison guards, despite the state’s hiring freeze. Governor M. Jodi Rell directed the agency to begin ...

Horse Adoption HORSE of Connecticut, a non-profit horse rescue organization located in Washington, CT, will host a horse adoption show at its headquarters at 43 Wilbur Road in Washington on Saturday, July 25. The show runs from 2-4 pm and the Tack S...

Despite the “dogged” manner in which Bo, the White House pup, pretended to be open and inclusive in his Friday, July 17, article in The New York Times (written under his nom de plume, “Ben Greenman”), h...

Savings On School Projects— Latest Short-Term Bonds Come Cheap By John Voket Strike up the band! Newtown’s Finance Director Robert Tait said taxpayers can celebrate one of the lowest short-term borrowing rates in recent memory...

Veto Override Brings State Universal Health Care Closer HARTFORD – The Democratic-controlled General Assembly in Connecticut has overridden seven of Republican Governor M. Jodi Rell’s 20 vetoes, including one that lays ground...

Unresponsive To The Community To the Editor: It appears as if [Borough] Planning and Zoning would like the residents of Newtown to restrict normal activities such as going to a farmers’ market in the town center. I recall that at one time...

A Glimpse Of The Garden By Nancy K. Crevier “A Glimpse Of The Garden ” is a miniseries focusing on the heart of a gardener ’s work — a special spot, an extraordinary plant, a place of resp...