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Theater Review— ‘The Seafarer’ Is An Irish Christmas Tale With A Well Crafted Variation On A Familiar Theme By Julie Stern HARTFORD — Hartford’s TheaterWorks has opened its 23rd season with...

No Longer Safe In The Yard To the Editor: It’s amazing how life can change in just one day. My husband and I have lived in Newtown for 14 wonderful years. We’ve always enjoyed Newtown’s natural beauty and wooded a...

Town Players To Stage British Panto For The Holidays Town Players of Newtown will be celebrating the holiday season with a British family show: the Panto Puss in Boots. Pantomimes (more commonly known as Pantos) are hugely popular in the UK.  Based...

Brenda M. Schlesinger Beloved Wife And Mother Brenda M. Schlesinger, 49, beloved wife of Joseph D. Schlesinger of Newtown, died December 1 in Stamford Hospital, after a long illness. She was born in Quebec, Canada, on December 2, 1959, a daughte...

NMS Steam Pipe Project Under Budget By Eliza Hallabeck Since a leaking steam pipe was found at Newtown Middle School in January, the project of fixing it has been ongoing. At the Board of Education’s meeting on Tuesday, November 18, Schoo...

Town Skaters Lead Colonials To Thanksgiving Tourney Win The Western Connecticut Jr. Colonials Pee Wee A hockey team, based out of the Danbury Ice Arena, captured first place in the Charles Huntington Thanksgiving Hockey Tournament November 28-30 at ...

Falling Gas Prices Harm State Tax Revenue HARTFORD (AP) — A steep drop in gas prices has created an estimated $100 million revenue shortfall in Connecticut’s state budget for this fiscal year, which already has a projected def...

Marcus Tracy Helps Wake Forest Advance To Quarterfinals Former Newtown High School soccer standout Marcus Tracy helped the top-seeded Wake Forest men’s soccer team to a 7-0 win over No. 16 Dartmouth in the third round of the NCAA Tourname...