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Police Planning Sobriety Checkpoint For This Weekend In their ongoing campaign against drunken driving, town police plan to hold a sobriety checkpoint this weekend to get intoxicated motorists off local roads. Police plan to hold the checkpoint on th...

Antiques Shows     ________________ Every Fri-Sun (year-round): Redwood Country Flea Market, 170 South Turnpike Rd, Wallingford, 6 am-2:30 pm, free adm & parking, 50-80 dealers; 203-269-3500. Sundays (through Dec): Elephant’s T...

Brookfield Man Charged In Road Rage Incident Police said they charged a man on a warrant on June 23 in connection with a road rage incident that occurred on South Main Street on May 10. Police said they arrested Emilio Diamantini, 46, of Brookfield ...

Roger Sprung’s Folk Credentials To the Editor: As a five-string banjo player myself, and a contemporary of Roger Sprung’s, I very much enjoyed the feature article you did on him in your June 19 issue. [Roger Sprung: Newtownâ&#...

The dispatchers at the emergency communications center at Town Hall South report the following fire calls: Thursday, June 18: 8:37 pm, tree down, wires blocking driveway, Valley Field South, Sandy Hook responded; 8:49 pm, pump detail, 126 South M...

Basketball Camp The 28th Annual Murphy Basketball Camp will be held at the Newtown Youth Academy in July as follows: Session I: July 13-July 17; Session II: July 20-July 24 (8:30-12:30 pm). Sessions are open to boys and girls ages 8-15. Cost is $1...

Reelection Quicksand (The following letter to US Senator Christopher Dodd has been received for publication.) Senator Dodd: I realize, as do you, that you are in trouble regarding your reelection next year. I realize that is why you are running TV a...

Arthur A. Anderson Devoted To Family Photographer Arthur A. Anderson, 71, a longtime Newtown resident, died June 23, following a valiant struggle with ALS. Born in Ossining, N.Y., on October 13, 1937, he was the son of Dorothy and Arthur Anderso...