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Newtown High School's girls' soccer team began the season with a win, going on the road and blanking Seymour 4-0 in a nonconference clash on September 8. Riley Powers, Brooke Jackson, Sydney Oltran, and Bella Gerace scored for Newtown. Goalkeepers Ry...

With a three year study on the pollinator expanses at High Meadow finished, the Board of Selectmen approved a $7,000 appropriation to continue the study again in three years. Holly Kocet, chairman of the Conservation Commission, and Deputy Director o...

The Newtown High School Marching Band & Guard performed in its first competition of the 2022 fall season on Saturday, September 10, at Bethel High School and earned first place. The 43-member ensemble placed first in USBand’s Class 2 Open division, w...

Newtown High School’s girls’ volleyball team put up a good battle but fell 3-1 (23-25, 25-22, 25-18, 25-23) to visiting Joel Barlow of Redding in the September 8 season-opening match. Grace Miller had 15 kills and five digs, Zosia Teraszkiewicz logge...

To the Editor: Thank you, Newtown! Thank you for all the donations during the Labor Day Parade! Your food donations filled the backs of two pickup trucks. Those items are already on our shelves, and are making a difference in our community. Your gene...

To the Editor: In the lead-up to the November 8 elections a lot of ink and digits will be devoted to candidates. I’m writing to highlight the Referendums that will be on the back of ballots. There will be a Statewide question, and in Newtown, two que...

To the Editor: The Legislative Council is proposing that the Town Board of Finance be eliminated and its functions rolled into the Legislative Council. Newtown voters will be asked to approve this short-sighted and counterproductive move in a Novembe...

To the Editor, On Saturday, the Newtown Forest Association once again hosted their Sunset Wine Tasting fundraiser. There is no better place to await a sunset (and for this year, to glimpse a bright orange harvest moon) than atop the Holcombe Hill Wil...

To the Editor: Given the vitriol of American politics lately, this quote by Elie Wiesel recently caught my attention: “The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith ...

To the Editor: There’s so much tension in the air these days. Will we devolve into another Civil War or find a middle road? We’re a very diverse nation with very diverse philosophies about what government should do. The first responsibility of a gove...