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Published: Jul 24, 2026 at 04:00 PM
July 27, 2001
HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER of Calla Sellner
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In the end, the Charter Revision Commission’s efforts to engage the Legislative Council in discussions about proposed charter changes finally paid off. During two days of meetings thi...
Updated: Jul 30, 2026 at 09:56 AM
Catherine Violet Hubbard Foundation is a nonprofit organization that works to promote compassion and healing through human-animal connection. The foundation was gifted 34 acres of farmland in 2014, which has since become Catherine Violet Hubbard (CVH...
Published: Jul 24, 2026 at 08:00 AM
It’s time! If you have books, jigsaw puzzles, LPs, CDs, DVDs etc that you’ve been holding onto during the recent Temporary Donations Pause by Friends of the C.H. Booth Library, it’s time to let go of those items and let the Friends find a new home fo...
Published: Jul 24, 2026 at 07:30 AM
SHERMAN — President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in 1865, leaving his widow, Mary Todd Lincoln, to raise their three sons. Over the course of the following years two of those sons also died, leaving Mary Todd with her eldest son, Robert, as her e...
Published: Jul 24, 2026 at 07:00 AM
The game of basketball and coaching have gone with the Murphy family — through three generations, for a half century-plus — like peanut butter goes with jelly; like peas in a pod; or ... perhaps most appropriately, since hoops are the topic of discus...
Published: Jul 24, 2026 at 07:00 AM
Social Services Director Natalie Griffith and Easy Transit Director Jennifer Faircloth discussed the Easy Transit program, including its funding, at the July 15 Legislative Council meeting.
The program, which was put together by Newtown Social Servi...
Published: Jul 24, 2026 at 06:55 AM
Newtown 10 year old and Head O'Meadow Elementary School student Mia McGuigan plays competitive softball for the Rhode Island Thunder Gold 10U travel team out of Monroe, and has established herself as quite the standout on the field.
A softball player...
Published: Jul 24, 2026 at 06:50 AM
The Newtown Hawks 12U baseball team defeated Brookfield 10-8 in New Canaan on July 11 to secure their incredible fourth consecutive Connecticut Cal Ripken State Championship.
The Hawks were powered by a three-run home run by Chris Fairbairn in the bo...
Published: Jul 24, 2026 at 12:00 AM
Did Not Notice Collision
Newtown Police report Robert Mauborgne, 65, of Sandy Hook, operating a 2014 GMC Savana, was pulling into a parking space in the lot at 228 South Main Street at 5:05 pm June 26. A 2019 Chevrolet Express owned by William W...
Published: Jul 24, 2026 at 12:00 AM
While Connecticut has enjoyed a period of relative calm over the last five years, the tropical systems of 2021 (Elsa, Fred, Henri, and Ida) and the severe flood of August 2024 were reminders of the risks posed by natural disasters.
The region’s commu...
