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Marcus Tracy Wins Top Collegiate Soccer Honor Newtown High School alum and Wake Forest senior Marcus Tracy, a forward on the men’s soccer team, was recently named the winner of the 2008 Missouri Athletic Club Hermann Trophy, the top indiv...

State Businesses Facing Higher Unemployment Taxes HARTFORD — Connecticut officials plan to increase taxes on businesses in 2009 because the state’s unemployment fund is paying out more money to jobless workers than it is takin...

Litchfield Historical Society Slates ‘Indoor Historic Games’ The Litchfield Historical Society will hold an afternoon of fellowship and games at the Tapping Reeve House, at 82 South Street in Litchfield, on January 25 from 2 t...

Middle School Basketball Highlights Newtown Middle School basketball results: Newtown 43, Bethel 35: The seventh grade boys won a tight game on against a scrappy Bethel team. Newtown was led in scoring by Matt Mossbarger with 11 points and Nick C...

Danny Magic For The Family Newtown Junior Women’s Club will present a pair of performances by Danny Magic on Sunday, February 1. The shows will be at Edmond Town Hall, 45 Main Street, and will begin at 1 and 4 pm. Tickets are $5 and are b...

Thursday, January 15: 9:42 am, alarm, 38 Barnabas Road, Hawleyville and Hook & Ladder responded. Friday, January 16: 8:34 am, alarm, 78 Hanover Road, Hook & Ladder and Hawleyville responded; 11:53 am, alarm, 28 Greenbriar Lane, Hook & Ladder...

Budgeting On The Backs Of The Unions To the Editor: Last week there was a meeting with the Educational Aides and Teachers Unions. In this meeting the members were informed that they had a choice between allowing their contracts to be opened up, allo...

Avoid Invisible Woman Syndrome NORWALK ­—Linda Gottlieb, owner of FIT Training in Milford, will be the speaker at the Fairfield County Network of Executive Women (FNEW) dinner Wednesday February 4, from 6 to 8:30 pm, at the Tuscan Oven R...

Inmate Assaulted In Garner Prison Cell In response to a complaint from the state Department of Correction (DOC), state police went to Garner Correctional Institution at 50 Nunnawauk Road on the afternoon of January 12 to investigate a report of an as...

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.                            —Jimmy Carter The new rage ...