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Published: Nov 21, 2008 at 12:00 AM
Doggone Etiquette —
Petting A Pet
By Bardi McLennan
A Word to the Dog:
When people (other than your very own people) reach out to pet you, do you “duck or grouse”? (In case you don’t get it, that i...
Published: Nov 21, 2008 at 12:00 AM
Fast Pitch Softball
Girls ages 8-14 are invited to sign up for the second annual Winter Training Program provided by Newtown High School softball team Head Coach Bob Guerrera, his assistant coaches and players. This program is designed to provide th...
Published: Nov 21, 2008 at 12:00 AM
Friday, November 21
Waldorf Holiday Fair, 7–10 pm, Housatonic Valley Waldorf School, 40 Dodgingtown Road, preview party with wine and cheese, event continues November 22; 364-1113.
Organist Dr Neal Campbell in concert, 8 pm, Trinity ...
Published: Nov 21, 2008 at 12:00 AM
Foster Parents Make Room In Their Hearts And Homes
By Nancy K. Crevier
November is National Adoption Month, but finding foster and permanent homes for children in care of the state is a year around challenge, stressed Deb Kelleher, director of Foster...
Published: Nov 21, 2008 at 12:00 AM
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Festival Returning To Connecticut’s Christmas Town
BETHLEHEM — An old-fashioned Christmas celebration is being planned for Bethlehem’s 28th Annual Christmas Town Festival. The festival will be hel...
Published: Nov 21, 2008 at 12:00 AM
The Day The Pumpkins Flew At NMS
By Eliza Hallabeck
When it comes to hurling pumpkins, larger ones go farther, as students at Newtown Middle School learned Wednesday, November 12 when a member of the faculty set up a trebuchet at the school.
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Published: Nov 21, 2008 at 12:00 AM
Four callers were able to identify last week’s challenge (inset), which is the red rooster on the side of Charlie Fadus’s barn on West Street. Congratulations to Sandra Ferris, Linda Uhde, Robert La Porta, and Kate Butera, who...
Published: Nov 21, 2008 at 12:00 AM
AMA Acts Against Texting While Driving, Trans Fats
CHICAGO (AP) — The American Medical Association recently took a stand against two unhealthy habits — eating foods made with artificial trans fats and text-messaging while driv...
Published: Nov 21, 2008 at 12:00 AM
TR Paul Counsel Joins Hord Foundation Board
Shelly A. Stokes, general counsel of Newtown-based TR Paul Inc, has joined the board of The Hord Foundation, Inc, of Danbury. Attorney Stokes, a 1998 graduate of George Washington University Law Center, has...
Published: Nov 21, 2008 at 12:00 AM
Commissions Try For Truce On Technology Park
By Kendra Bobowick
The conversation was “successful” and a “good discussion,” say chairmen of commissions eyeing the site of a proposed technology park.
On...