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A Need For Science And Reasoning To the Editor: At the selectmen’s meeting December 15, we had nonresidents from hunting clubs given the opportunity to speak, they were able to share their views on how they would like to be able to hunt ...

Messiah Sing-In, Sunday ROXBURY — The Shepaug Friends of Music will present the Fourth Annual Community Messiah Sing at 4 pm on Sunday, December 28, at Roxbury Congregational Church. The event is under the direction of Christopher Shay ...

Retirement Bittersweet For Longtime Ambulance Corps Members By Nancy K. Crevier For 20 years they have answered the urgent beep of their pagers, leaping up to leave family and holiday celebrations, abandoning filled grocery carts at the checkout, and...

Club Seeking Nominees For Empowering Women Award The Newtown Woman’s Club, GFWC, Inc is accepting nominations of any female Newtown resident who is doing volunteer work that helps to empower other women of any age or young girls, for the ...

Holiday Closings All town offices and agencies will be closed from noon on Wednesday, December 31, to 8 am on Friday, January 2, for the New Year’s holiday. C.H. Booth Library will be closing at 1 pm on New Year’s Eve, and wil...

Salt & Deicers Not Beneficial To Trees When winter snow and ice begin to fall, so does the salt… on driveways, sidewalks, and streets to aid in melting away potential hazards. Keeping surroundings safe during the winter months is important, bu...

Holiday Closing NYFS will be closed for regular business from Wednesday, December 24, until Thursday, January 1. We will be open during that week only for the Guitar Hero Tournament. We will be reopen on Friday, January 2. Family Programs & Events *â...

Fire Kills Chickens, Destroys Coop On Main Street By Andrew Gorosko Firefighters from Newtown Hook & Ladder, Hawleyville, and Sandy Hook responded to the report of a structure fire at 15 Main Street at 6:02 pm Saturday, December 20. On arriving, fir...