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Newtown’s Historical Failure To Plan To the Editor: Newtown has a long history of being unable to plan ahead. In 1950, we placed kindergarteners and first graders in the St Rose Church Hall. Double sessions, then triple sessions at what i...

Save A Life CPR Classes St Rose and Newtown Congregational Church Parish Nurse Program(s) are planning to co-present Save A Life CPR Classes this month. There will be four sessions available to select from, with CPR instruction provided by Emi Lydem,...

Friday, September 26: 8:28 am, tree on wires, Shepaug Road, Sandy Hook responded; 11:21 am, motor vehicle accident, near 101 Castle Hill Road, Hook & Ladder responded; 3:10 pm, motor vehicle accident, Exit 11 of I-84, Sandy Hook responded.  ...

Three Decades Of Care Reclaims A Rocky Ledge   By Nancy K. Crevier Dedicated to the memory of “a wonderful woman named Rosie,” Joe Viola has created his own Eden of terraced gardens that sweep down the hillside leading to h...

Letters Of Endorsement To the editor: We, the people of the 106th District, who have been so aptly served and nurtured over these past years by former State Representative Julia Wasserman, have a unique opportunity to continue that leadership and ded...

Vote No To Increased Debt To the Editor: Newtown should not accept cost overruns for the high school expansion. First the size of this expansion has been difficult to justify based on several population projections. If we find five or ten years from ...

Vote Set On NHS Expansion Shortfall By John Voket Only two taxpayers and four public officials attended a special town meeting Wednesday morning that set a date for a referendum that could authorize bridging a $6 million-plus shortfall on the local h...

Easy Options For Flu Shots Newtown Visiting Nurse Association, with assistance by Newtown Health District, Newtown Senior Center, Bethel VNA and Danbury VNA, have arranged for eight EZ Pass Family Flu Clinics. October is Family Flu Prevention Month f...

A Little Here, And A Little There To the Editor: There has been much talk about the “scalability” and “mismanagement” of the high school expansion project. Expanding the high school in stages is not f...

Two More Young Men Have Attained The Rank Of Eagle Scout  Troop 770, which is sponsored by St Rose of Lima Catholic Church, proudly awarded the rank of Eagle Scout to Stephen Gardner and Ian McEmber during a recent ceremony at St Rose Church. Monsi...