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* * * A grass-roots group of sports-minded individuals has sprung up to try to improve town playing fields. Claiming to represent 2,350 citizens either as players, parents, or volunteers, the Newtown Sports Coalition wants to demonst...

A Long Journey And Wonderful Year To the Editor: I would like to take this opportunity to thank an amazing group of girls — Charlotte Gray, Katie Wojcik, Bethany Dubois, and Rebecca Vodola — who were part of a long journey and...

BAHA’I FAITH OF NEWTOWN Contact Margo Deselin 241-5525; WintonFarms@aol.com Devotional meetings; spiritual discussion meetings; discussions of social issues from a spiritual perspective. The meetings are held at various locations in Newto...

Awesome Amphibians And Rowdy Reptiles BRIDGEPORT — Each Monday and Tuesday from June 23 to August 26, Connecticut’s Beardsley Zoo will present “Awesome Amphibians and Rowdy Reptiles” shows at 11 am and...

Summer History Camp Registration Open The Newtown Historical Society is now taking reservations for its third annual Summer History Camp, which will be held this year during the week of July 21–25. This is a unique, hands-on camp experie...

Silbina Hilario Kind, Compassionate, And Generous Silbina “Sibby” Hilario, 74, of Newtown, died June 4. Mrs Hilario was born in Danbury to Virgilio and Ernestina Simoes. Her loving husband of 55 years, Arthur Hilario; he...

AP Biology Class At NHS  Chips In For EJ By Eliza Hallabeck During the last days of school, 20 students in Susan McConnell’s AP Biology class are holding a Chocolate PediaSure Drive for EJ Carfi, an 11-year-old with a rare skin disorder ...

Sandy Hook School Opens Its Doors In The Name Of Art     By Eliza Hallabeck The walls of Sandy Hook School were lined with drawings, sculptures and replicas of masters’ works as painting pallets lined the floor to show visitors where t...

Relay For Life Surpasses Its Goal And Sets A Record By Kendra Bobowick Luminarias lined the track and tents sat in clusters on the high school football field as the 2008 Newtown Relay For Life found hundreds of cancer survivors and supporters waiting...

NHS Alum, Body, Stars On Lacrosse Field By Andy Hutchison Chris Body, a 2004 Newtown High School graduate, recently completed his senior season of lacrosse at Western New England College in Springfield, Mass. The team’s starting goalie s...