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What’s The Real Reason For LZA Patrols? To the Editor: As a former treasurer and commissioner on the Lake Zoar Authority and currently a volunteer with the Leaps of Faith (LOF) Disabled Waterskiers, I have a unique perspective on this is...

School Board Vacancy Open To All Parties The open seat on the Board of Education is no longer just seeking Republicans, according to Superintendent of Schools Janet Robinson. Last week the seat was announced to only be open to Republicans, but after...

Special Announcement *“Reality Bites”: Join Stacia Helfand for “Reality Bites,” a new weight management group that offers strategies and tips for weight loss. Weekly sessions provide a weigh-in for...

Quality Improvement Program A First At Danbury Hospital DANBURY — Danbury Hospital is among growing group of medical institutions nationwide taking part in rigorous reviews of surgical cases that offer consumers and payers another tool fo...

Skateboarding Is A Sport, Too To the Editor: When I asked my son why a skateboard park would be good for Newtown, he replied, “It would be a good investment for the town. It would provide a place where kids, like myself, could skate in a...

Halloween-Themed Hunter Pace The 30th Annual “Frost on the Pumpkin” Hunter Pace will be on Sunday, October 26 on Mount Nebo Road. The Newtown Bridle Lands Association invites attendees to enjoy a fun day of cross country ridin...

Variety Of Found Items  Await Return To Owners Among the dozen items now being held in the police department’s found goods inventory is an unusual form of pedaled transportation. Police are holding for safekeeping a bright pink Miami Su...

Collections Slow For Annual Sale— Special Book Donation Day Planned At Library By Nancy K. Crevier Friends of the C.H. Booth Library have decided to make it easy for residents to donate to the Annual Book Sale. On Sunday, October 26, the ...

Making Waves On Lake Zoar For the past 12 summers, a group of volunteers has been challenging people with physical disabilities to stretch the limits of their experience by getting them up on water skis on Lake Zoar. We have reported regularly on the...

Seventh Newtown Hooked Rug Show May Have Been Best Presentation To Date By Shannon Hicks The juried competition of the 7th Annual Newtown Hooked Rug Show attracted handmade creations from across the country but it was a local (very local) hooked pie...