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Published: Apr 28, 2023 at 07:00 AM
After an ultra-challenging schedule to start the season, the Newtown High School boys’ volleyball team is in the win column. The Nighthawks overcame a hard-fought first-set loss and defeated visiting Kolbe Cathedral of Bridgeport 3-1 (25-27, 25-18, 2...
Updated: Apr 28, 2023 at 09:33 AM
SHERMAN — Whether it is the 1981 Henry Fonda and Katherine Hepburn film version or the 2001 Christopher Plummer and Julie Andrews TV movie version, chances are you are familiar with the timeless classic On Golden Pond by Ernest Thompson. It first ent...
Published: Apr 28, 2023 at 07:00 AM
For the first time in years, the turnout for a budget referendum was higher than the previous year, albeit only slightly. Nonetheless, voters who cast ballots for the 2023-24 town and school budget requests endorsed both — as well as authorizing bond...
Published: Apr 28, 2023 at 06:55 AM
Playing six games in nine days can take a toll on a pitching staff, but consecutive combined shutouts, and three such dominant pitching outcomes during this stretch, by Newtown High School’s hurlers gave the Nighthawks a spark and helped them pull ou...
Published: Apr 28, 2023 at 06:50 AM
Newtown High School’s softball team made it ten for ten to start the spring, shutting out a trio of opponents in succession, and in ultra dominant fashion — 17-0 at Bethel on April 19, then 24-0 at Joel Barlow of Redding the next day, and 22-0 at New...
Updated: May 01, 2023 at 12:08 PM
UPDATE (Monday, May 1, 2023): Tickets for Friday night's screening can now be purchased directly through the Edmond Town Hall website in advance. They can also be purchased at the event Friday night.
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Edmond Town Hall (ETH) will s...
Published: Apr 27, 2023 at 05:20 PM
To the Editor:
Thank you to the small but vocal group in town who raise concerns about books in our school libraries. We have been expecting you and you do not disappoint in your copycat efforts to wreak havoc in town. You work off nationally-curated...
Published: Apr 27, 2023 at 05:15 PM
To the Editor:
Pre-adolescence and adolescence are very difficult times for youth. Not only are boys and girls going through physical and psychological change, working through the ins and outs of their identities, but perhaps for the first time they ...
Published: Apr 27, 2023 at 05:10 PM
To the Editor:
I’ve always taken pride in living in a State etched deeply in the original struggle to be free from tyranny and to live in a land void of public or religious censorship. Our country is based on principles of freedom of speech, and free...
Published: Apr 27, 2023 at 05:05 PM
The following letter has been received for publication:
An open letter to the Newtown Board of Education and community at large:
“The principle of freedom to read and the professional judgment of the staff must be defended.”
As former Board of E...
