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Newtown High School’s softball team made it ten for ten to start the spring, shutting out a trio of opponents in succession, and in ultra dominant fashion — 17-0 at Bethel on April 19, then 24-0 at Joel Barlow of Redding the next day, and 22-0 at New...

UPDATE (Monday, May 1, 2023): Tickets for Friday night's screening can now be purchased directly through the Edmond Town Hall website in advance. They can also be purchased at the event Friday night. * * * * * Edmond Town Hall (ETH) will s...

To the Editor: Thank you to the small but vocal group in town who raise concerns about books in our school libraries. We have been expecting you and you do not disappoint in your copycat efforts to wreak havoc in town. You work off nationally-curated...

To the Editor: Pre-adolescence and adolescence are very difficult times for youth. Not only are boys and girls going through physical and psychological change, working through the ins and outs of their identities, but perhaps for the first time they ...

To the Editor: I’ve always taken pride in living in a State etched deeply in the original struggle to be free from tyranny and to live in a land void of public or religious censorship. Our country is based on principles of freedom of speech, and free...

The following letter has been received for publication: An open letter to the Newtown Board of Education and community at large: “The principle of freedom to read and the professional judgment of the staff must be defended.” As former Board of E...

To the Editor: It’s about “Book Banning,” not “Book Challenges.” Let me repeat, Book Banning, Book Banning, Book Banning. “Don’t say “Gay” in Florida. Don’t say “Book Banning” in Newtown? Nope. It’s not about the euphemism “Book Challenges.” It’s abo...

To the Editor: A few weeks ago myself, along with 64 other community members, wrote a letter to the Board of Education & administration regarding our concern over sexually explicit material in our school libraries. The original response we received f...

To the Editor: Everyone is entitled to his or her own values and opinions. No one else can tell me what to think or do. And it’s up to parents to offer guidance to their children, supporting their growth and intellectual development based on their fa...

To the Editor: I have been a resident of Newtown since 1996. I chose Newtown for the expansive countryside and open space, reputation of its school system and absence of heavily constructed, densely populated and commercialized spaces contradictory t...