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Published: Mar 26, 2023 at 08:00 AM
The Society of Creative Arts of Newtown (SCAN) will be presenting its annual Spring Juried Show & Sale at Art and Frame Gallery, 77 Main Street, April 1 through May 31.
Show hours are Monday through Saturday, 10 am to 6 pm.
Media accepted into the sh...
Updated: Mar 27, 2023 at 08:22 AM
Newtown Cultural Arts Commission will be awarding two or more project grants with a total of $2,500 in two categories — individual artists and groups — that bring the arts to Newtown.
Individual artists must be a resident of Newtown. Although any gro...
Updated: Mar 26, 2023 at 08:03 AM
Come next winter, gone will be the days of Connecticut high school basketball teams chewing several minutes of game clock to hold onto the lead. The need to intentionally foul will not kick in until later in games, if at all. Scores as ridiculously l...
Updated: Mar 29, 2023 at 11:09 AM
It’s time to "get quacking!"
Friday, March 31 marks the start of ticket sales for the ever-popular Newtown Lions Great Pootatuck Duck Race. This year the race will be held on June 3 from 11 am until 2:30 pm in Sandy Hook Village center.
Tickets, whic...
Published: Mar 25, 2023 at 08:00 AM
Edmond Town Hall Theatre, the historic theater and movie house located at 45 Main Street, announces its next headlining comedy performer.
Mike Finoia has been booked on Stage 2 — the recently rebranded performance space on the building’s third floor ...
Published: Mar 25, 2023 at 07:00 AM
Siblings Lauren and Nick Jacobs, both standout ski racers from town, competed at the highest level for their respective teams earlier in March.
Lauren, a Newtown High School senior who races for the Newtown-Pomperaug of Southbury co-op team, skied he...
Published: Mar 25, 2023 at 07:00 AM
With banners flying and bright colors, the work of Newtown resident Kristine Humber has been chosen as the signature art of the 2023 Newtown Arts Festival, set for September 22-24 at Fairfield Hills. The weekend event will again open with an outdoor ...
Updated: Mar 27, 2023 at 08:22 AM
As a mourning cloak butterfly fluttered about harkening the arrival of spring inside Real Food CT’s newly constructed and huge new greenhouse, long-time wingman Dave Hazen moved around the otherwise quiet space watering the spinach, lettuce, and oth...
Published: Mar 25, 2023 at 06:50 AM
Newtown High School’s boys’ swimming team had excellent showings at both the Class L State Championships at the Cornerstone Aquatics Center in West Hartford on March 16 and the State Open Yale University in New Haven on March 18. There were a trio of...
Published: Mar 24, 2023 at 04:00 PM
March 27, 1998
HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER of Sarah Mannix
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A story on the front page of The Newtown Bee last week described a portrait of Henry Beers Glover scheduled to be sold March 22 at Skinner’s auction gallery in Bolton, Mass. The childho...
