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Dungeon Display Desecrated— Sword, Werewolf Heads Snatched From Halloween Tableau By Andrew Gorosko For the past 20 years, the Moulthrop family has been displaying various macabre tableaux in their Buttonball Drive yard in Sandy Hook for...

Let Us Pull Together To the Editor: Now that we can put the elections of 2008 behind us, it is appropriate to examine the power of hope compared to the desperation of fear. President-elect Barack Obama carried Connecticut, Chris Lyddy was sent to Har...

Commentary— The Bottom Line Is Regulation By Kelle Louaillier It is no secret that today’s politics are driven, by and large, by crisis. There are those like the “Social Security crisis” that were man...

Selectmen: Keep ‘Hundred Year’ Roof On Bridgeport Hall By John Voket First Selectman Joe Borst maintains that a new town hall development at Fairfield Hills deserves a new half-million-dollar roof. But his fellow selectmen, Pa...

Tyler Adams Enlists In The Marines Civilian Tyler G. Adams, son of Mariann J. Adams of Newtown and Milton S. Adams of Newtown, recently enlisted in the US Marine Corps under the Delayed Entry Program at Marine Corps Recruiting Station Springfield, Ch...

A Job Well Done To the Editor: Warmest congratulations to the Lyddy team, family, and friends. What a wonderful victory! I have known Chris Lyddy for several years and have great admiration for him. My confidence is high as he heads to Hartford as N...

At 60, Alice Cooper Is Still The Master Of The Macabre   By John Voket There are some artists you always dream of meeting or chatting with. For me it was shock rocker Alice Cooper. So when I got the chance to live the dream and chat with him prior ...

Sharing Children’s Joy To the Editor: This past Halloween, we had the pleasure of greeting your children as they trick-or-treated at our home. Their range of costumes was impressive: butterflies, princesses, Clone Wars troopers, robots, ...

Riders Show Skills In Hunter Pace MIDDLEBURY — More than 70 riders and horses recently tested their cross country skills during the Middlebury Bridle Land Association’s 2008 Fall Hunter Pace. The event took place at Larkinâ&#...

NHS PTSA Meets Nov. 10 The Newtown High School PTSA will have its next meeting on Monday, November 10, at 7 pm, in the Lecture Hall, room 107, at the high school. The guest speaker will be Cathy Ostar, director of guidance.  There will also be an up...