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The Need For A Medicaid Hospice Benefit To the Editor: As a not-for-profit community-based hospice agency, we are very pleased that Governor Rell included a Medicaid Hospice Benefit for Connecticut residents in her budget for 2008-09. We applaud the...

Signature Kitchens and Bath Magazine will feature Barbara Terkildsen Interiors LLC, a Newtown-based, custom kitchen and bath design company, in the winter 2008 edition. The feature profiles the local company’s successful implementati...

Combined Requests $107 Million— Officials Hope Conservative Increases Prompt First Round Budget Passage By John Voket Like a puck dropping on the hard surface of a hockey rink, the delivery of the proposed school district budget binders ...

Nighthawk Joins Cheerleaders On Sidelines At Newtown High School By Andy Hutchison Bobcats, Panthers, Mustangs, Wildcats and, of course … Nighthawks. Area high schools all have mascots — or at least images of their beloved team lea...

TRAVEL Girls 6th Travel Bethel 28, Newtown 25 – Danielle Shine had 10 points, 11 rebounds, and 9 blocks in Sunday’s game, but it wasn’t enough to hold off a late-game surge by Bethel. Jessie Principi ...

Sex Offender Loses Case In State Appellate Court  By Andrew Gorosko The state Appellate Court has rejected a Newtown sex offender’s appeal, which claimed that it would be unfair to have him submit to sex offender evaluation and treatmen...

Brian Recht, MD, Named Chief Resident Brian Recht, MD, son of Carol Diem Recht of Tunnel Road, Newtown, and the late Richard Recht, was recently named chief resident at Natividad Medical Center in Salinas, Calif., for the 2007-2008 year. Dr Recht re...

Annual Flanders Pancake Breakfast WOODBURY — A New England tradition will continue at Flanders Nature Center with the return of the annual all-you-can-eat pancake breakfast on Sunday, February 24, at Woodbury Emergency Services Building o...

Flu Strain, Vaccine Not A Good Match This Season By John Voket Across the country and here in the region, the flu season is getting worse, and health officials say it is partly because the flu vaccine does not protect against most of the spreading fl...