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Senior services for Newtown seniors are available at the Multi-Purpose Building on Riverside Road in Sandy Hook. The Senior Center is under the auspices of the Commission on Aging. The center is run by Senior Services Director Marilyn Place. For more...

Newtown Youth Wrestling Concludes Exciting Season of Competition Newtown’s Over the Top Wrestling Club concluded the season on Jan 31 with the league championship at Danbury Police Athletic League. In this contest between league teams fro...

Newtown Rotary Provides Dictionaries To Students The Newtown Rotary Club recently presented dictionaries to every fourth grade student in Newtown. A total of 513 Student Dictionaries were presented to the fourth graders at Sandy Hook School, Hawley...

Change You Can Believe In? To the Editor: In the letter published 2/13/09, “Let’s Have Some Hope For A Change,” Richard English reverts to Bush bashing, flawed economic theory and several outright falsehoods to ass...

Newtown Support Groups Friday, February 20        AA, Newtown United Methodist Church, 92 Church Hill Road, 8 pm, beginners meeting, open discussion. Saturday, February 21       Daily Reflections meeting, St Rose School (Mons...

Better Breathers Club Talk On Avoiding Infection BRIDGEPORT — A talk on “How to Avoid Infection” will be hosted by St Vincent Medical Center’s Better Breathers Club on Thursday, February 26, from 1 to ...

Horse Tale Highlights A Mother’s Lessons Author and artist Scarlett Lewis of Sandy Hook has been passionate about horses since she was a young girl who drove a pony cart around her neighborhood with her Shetland and its colt trailing beh...

Unions Resist Wage Freezes By John Voket & Eliza Hallabeck Representatives of the town hall employees union, which claims a 75 percent female workforce, question the reasoning behind denying its 40 members a one-year contract extension when the town...

Newtown Girls Hobbling Toward Postseason, Hope To Build Off Near Comeback By Andy Hutchison FAIRFIELD — The Newtown High School girls’ basketball team nearly overcame a 23-point third-quarter deficit but lost its fourth straig...

Growing Demand For Caregivers Creating Recession-Proof Employment Opportunities By John Voket The owner of a Sandy Hook senior care franchise, as well as its “Caregiver of the Year,” are both touting this rapidly growing indu...