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Corrections Due to an editing error, a comment from Public Works Director Fred Hurley in a Newtown Bee report about flooding at Bridgeport Hall was paraphrased inaccurately. The December 19 story originally stated: Mr Hurley admitted the several inch...

Fire Marshal Urges Caution With Candles Structure fires caused by candles in one-family and two-family houses, in apartments, and in mobile homes are far more likely to occur in December than in other months, in view of people using lit candles to c...

Commentary— Congress Needs Proper Leadership By Lee H. Hamilton As Congress moves beyond last November’s elections and turns its attention to governing, it has to perform one of the toughest pivots in American politics. Govern...

Green Team Gets T-Shirts By Eliza Hallabeck Students on the Middle Gate School Green Team wore T-shirts to show their membership in the group for the first time Thursday, December 18. The Green Team is a group of 15 students in the fourth grade that ...

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...

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 ...

Town Clerk Aiming For Website FOIA Conformity By Jan By John Voket Newtown Town Clerk Debbie Aurelia is close to having the municipality’s website in conformity with newly enacted aspects of the state Freedom of Information Act, which too...

* * * CASA, Citizens Against Substance Abuse, a group formed as a result of the presentation of the widely acclaimed showing of “The Chemical People,” recently met with First Selectman Jack Rosenthal to launch ...

Protect Your Fine Jewelry DANBURY — The Danbury Library will host a free talk and book signing by Joe Brandt, author of Protecting the Family Jewels: How to Protect Your Jewelry for Now, and for the Future on Saturday, January 10, from 2 ...