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Doggone Etiquette — Don’t Leave Me! By Bardi McLennan A Word to the Dog:                            What do you do when your Very Important Person puts on a coat, and then goes around checking a...

Bargaining With A Bigot To The Editor, It is with a certain amount of sadness that I write this letter to report an unsettling experience I had last week involving a fellow citizen of Newtown. I stopped at a yard sale and found a couple of items I wa...

Fred Stoddard Former Fabric Fire Hose Employee Fred Stoddard, 72, died March 30. He was born in Southbury on May 30, 1936, a son of Frederick and Emma (Watts) Stoddard. Mr Stoddard was raised in Newtown and graduated from Newtown High Scho...

Three VNA Scholarships Available Applications are now available for the three scholarship opportunities offered annually by Newtown Visiting Nurse Association. Return date for any of the 2009 awards is April 20. Since 1972 the Newtown VNA has awarded...

Historical Society Program Will Visit The Roadside Diner In those days before fast food began to dominate the landscape, there was perhaps no more iconic symbol of American foodways than the roadside diner. Newtown Historical Society will stop for a...

Nature’s Way To Beat Spring Allergies DERBY — Learn about options for prevention and treatment of seasonal allergies on Thursday, April 16, at 5 pm, the Integrative Medicine Center at Griffin Hospital. It will present â€&...

Nearly 400 Turn Out For Bienkowski Marrow Registry Drive By John Voket & Kendra Bobowick Hands busy, frequently waving a “hello,” and shuffling donations into envelopes, Deborah Augenbraun and her daughter Laura thanked the ...

A Morning Spent Building Families To the Editor: Last Saturday the Newtown Parent Connection held its second annual Parent University at Newtown Middle School. It was a phenomenal morning, made better by the outstanding contributions of the talented...

Funding Nursing Education To the Editor: The Newtown Visiting Nurse Association has been granting scholarships since 1972. The scholarships available this year to graduating high school seniors entering the field of nursing are the Anna E. Clow Schol...