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Corporate Scrooges To the Editor: Dear Virginia, yes there is an Ebenezer Scrooge. He is alive and well. Mostly he can be observed in corporate America. During this holiday season I was struck by the greed exhibited by companies such as AIG. Toy comp...

Newtown Officials Poised To Enter Bleak Budget Season By John Voket If Newtown Finance Director Robert Tait was a farmer, this would be planting season. Mr Tait has been busier than usual going into his first local budget cycle since taking over the ...

Newtown Middle Schoolers Win First Two Newtown Middle School’s boys’ basketball team defeated Rochambeau 49-47 in its season opener on December 18 and toppled Schagticoke 54-15 on Monday. In the first win, Eric Fiore who nett...

Brothers Give A Holiday Gift To Help Animals At The Pound By Kendra Bobowick They heard about it during the annual Lions Club duck race in Sandy Hook’ they caught more conversations in church, and soon their parents were explaining the n...

‘Invisible Children’ Fundraiser Over For Now At NHS By Eliza Hallabeck Samantha Kent said the past 100 days that marked a fundraiser at Newtown High School was remarkable. “It was an amazing experience,â€&#x9d...

Publisher Closing Weeklies HARTFORD (AP) — Employees at more than five weekly newspapers owned by the Journal Register Co. were told on December 18 that their papers have been shuttered. Joyce Mletschnig, associate editor of The Picto...

Lyme Disease And Deer Management It appears that one of the first New Year’s resolutions to be tackled by Newtown’s Board of Selectmen in 2009 is a problem of Auld Lang Syne (Old Long Since). Just as everything old becomes new...

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...

Scholarships Available The Newtown High School Career Center publicizes all scholarships of which it is notified. A few of the scholarships, typically national ones, request that money be enclosed with the application. The Career Center believes that...