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25.6	Newtown’s 49th Labor Day Parade To Hit The Road Read More...	9/2/2010 1:50:40 PM
25.6	Home Sales In Newtown Rise Above National Average The National Association of Realtors (NAR) announced August 24 that July 2010 sales had dropped significantly, with existing home sales of single-family, townhouses, co-ops, and condominiums 25.5 percent lower than sales one year ago, nationwide. Existing sales are transactions of units that are completed. Read More...	9/2/2010 1:49:26 PM
25.6	Origins Of Labor Day Parade Debated Stan Verry lived in Newtown from 1960 to 1998, and even though he has called Hampton, Va., home for the past 12 years, he continues to receive The Newtown Bee each week. “We were in Newtown for a nice long time, and we enjoyed it,” said Mr Verry, Tuesday, August 31, in a phone call from his southern home. “I’m seeing fewer people we know these days, though, in the paper,” he said. Read More...	9/2/2010 1:41:10 PM
25.6	All Hands On ‘Dock’ For Taunton Lake Family When weed-infested waters make a dive off of the end of the dock an unpleasant experience, what is a lakeside dweller to do? Rob Lynders found the solution to that problem this spring, when a wild wind broke free his dock from the gangway, and put into motion an idea that the Taunton Lake resident had been mulling over for “at least five years.” Read More...	9/2/2010 1:34:04 PM
25.6	When Caring Is More Than Skin Deep Through the efforts of Reed Intermediate School fifth grade teacher Gina Swanson and her family, parents Bob and Maria DeCesare of Trumbull and sister Lisa Tilson of Stratford, Zumba fans will be able to “cha-cha-cha” for a cause, Friday, September 10, when the American Society For Scleroderma Research (ASFSR) hosts a Master Zumba Class fundraiser at the school on Trades Lane. The DeCesares are board members of the group. Read More...	9/2/2010 1:14:20 PM
25.6	What We Are Reading: Great Beach Reads People involved in the news business at any level share a common fondness for the written word. So it is not surprising that employees at The Newtown Bee can often be found talking about their favorite books with each other. Are you curious what the cooler talk is about at 5 Church Hill Road? Read More...	9/2/2010 12:23:25 PM
25.6	It’s Reigning Cats And Dogs At Jacqueline’s Originals From floor to ceiling on three sides of her Mt Pleasant Road basement workshop, Jacqueline Adams is surrounded by pullout drawers filled with cast resin heads and figurines of over 150 dog breeds, and long or short-haired cats, some as small as one-half of an inch, others 6 inches tall from neck to top of head. The thousands of items are only a small portion of her raw working material, though. The rest is stored in 2,700 square feet of warehouse space over on Simm Lane. Read More...	9/2/2010 12:14:47 PM
25.6	Parade Committee Selects Mattatuck Drum Band For 2010 Legends & Pioneers Award The Newtown Labor Day Parade committee is pleased to announce that this year’s Legends and Pioneers Award goes to the Mattatuck Drum Band of Waterbury. The Legends and Pioneers Award has been awarded since 2008 to an individual or organization that has helped make the parade a special tradition through longtime participation. Previous years’ recipients were the Rockin’ Roosters Square Dance Club in 2008 and the Lathrop School of Dance in 2009. Read More...	8/27/2010 5:54:18 PM
25.6	Parade Committee Selects Mattatuck Drum Band For 2010 Legends & Pioneers Award The Newtown Labor Day Parade committee is pleased to announce that this year’s Legends and Pioneers Award goes to the Mattatuck Drum Band of Waterbury. The Legends and Pioneers Award has been awarded since 2008 to an individual or organization that has helped make the parade a special tradition through longtime participation. Previous years’ recipients were the Rockin’ Roosters Square Dance Club in 2008 and the Lathrop School of Dance in 2009. Read More...	8/27/2010 5:51:09 PM
25.6	Library Introduces Sensory Story Time “Sensory processing is the normal neurological process of organizing sensations for our use in everyday life,” explains Carol Stock Kranowitz, MA, author of Out-of-Sync Child Has Fun. The brain utilizes the five senses of vision, hearing, smell, taste, and touch to interpret messages in the surroundings and function within those surroundings, often unconsciously. The sensory systems also include the tactile sense, providing information about texture, shape, and size of objects; the vestibular sense, providing information about gravity and balance; and the proprioceptive sense, which provides information about where the body parts are and what they are doing, says the author. Read More...	8/26/2010 4:16:40 PM
25.6	Library Introduces Sensory Story Time “Sensory processing is the normal neurological process of organizing sensations for our use in everyday life,” explains Carol Stock Kranowitz, MA, author of Out-of-Sync Child Has Fun. The brain utilizes the five senses of vision, hearing, smell, taste, and touch to interpret messages in the surroundings and function within those surroundings, often unconsciously. The sensory systems also include the tactile sense, providing information about texture, shape, and size of objects; the vestibular sense, providing information about gravity and balance; and the proprioceptive sense, which provides information about where the body parts are and what they are doing, says the author. Read More...	8/26/2010 4:06:23 PM
25.6	Connecticut On Alert For Signs Of Borer Infestation The Connecticut Department Agricultural Experimental Station (CAES) and Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) issued an alert earlier this summer that federal agricultural officials have confirmed the presence of the emerald ash borer (EAB) in Saugerties N.Y., just 25 miles from the Connecticut border. Read More...	8/26/2010 3:45:38 PM
25.6	Newtown ‘Food Pioneer’ Recognized By Italian Trade Commission Newtown resident Rudy Magnan was surprised and pleased to be awarded a Distinguished Service Award in the food importing and distribution industry this past June, by the Italian Trade Commission. Read More...	8/26/2010 2:19:13 PM
25.6	Early Leaf Fall Not A Threat To Leaf Peepers There is nothing like shuffling through a pile of dry, crunchy leaves on a crisp autumn morning, and taking in the glory of the first rosy hues of maples showing their true colors. But what does it mean when it is only the end of August and leaves are beginning to pile up at the side of the road, and treetops are beginning to redden? Read More...	8/26/2010 1:48:16 PM
25.6	Landscaping And Perennials Create A Harmonious Garden Read More...	8/19/2010 1:42:32 PM
25.6	New Medium Proves A Winner For Local Artist Joanne Conant of Newtown has enjoyed three decades of local and national acclaim as a skilled enamel artist, pewtersmith, silversmith, and goldsmith. Read More...	8/19/2010 1:30:54 PM
25.6	America’s Great Loop A Great Adventure For Newtown Couple Pete Wilson is a speculation builder in Newtown, but what he and his wife, Joanne, are building right now is not a house, but the memory of a lifetime. Along with their dog, Buddy, the Wilsons set off June 2, from Stratford, in their 39-foot trawler, The Tony M., a Mainship 350, on what is known as America’s Great Loop, a circumnavigation of Eastern North America by water. Read More...	8/19/2010 1:11:22 PM
25.6	Labor Day Parade Committee Tries New Funding Strategy Originally, the parade committee counted on the donations of Newtown residents to fund the annual Labor Day Parade, said parade president Beth Caldwell, Monday, August 9, but about seven or eight years ago it became apparent that increased costs meant additional revenue would be needed. “We started soliciting corporate sponsorships, and that has been fairly successful. But we’re always down to the wire, so far as funding the parade,” she added. Read More...	8/12/2010 1:27:31 PM
25.6	What We Are Reading People involved in the news business at any level share a common fondness for the written word. So it is not surprising that Newtown Bee workers can often be found talking about their favorite books with each other. Are you curious what the cooler talk is about at 5 Church Hill Road? Read More...	8/12/2010 12:44:25 PM
25.6	The Kindness Of Strangers Reunites Cat And Owner The happiest phone call she ever placed was the one Flo Thompson made to her husband, Jerry, in Virginia, Monday night, August 2: “The search is over! We’ve got Cowboy!” Read More...	8/5/2010 2:19:26 PM
25.6	Dancers And Uke Band Make Hawaiian Luau Special Members of the Danbury Senior Center Hat City Uke Band, the Brookfield Hula Group, and the Alay Philippine Cultural Dance Group of Greater Danbury joined forces to entertain a full house at the Newtown Senior Center’s annual Hawaiian Luau, Tuesday afternoon, July 27. “What is nice about this afternoon,” said dance director Josie Rodriguez in introducing the entertainment, “is the sharing of the talents of the different senior centers.” Read More...	8/5/2010 1:27:04 PM
25.6	Students Look For ‘Slick’ Solutions To Oil Spill Using teamwork and hands-on experimentation, a group of 12 youngsters, ages 7 to 10, discovered Tuesday afternoon, July 20, that containing and cleaning up an oil spill — even one of just two tablespoons — is harder than it looks, and that many solutions result in new problems that must be resolved. Read More...	7/29/2010 2:57:05 PM
25.6	Students Look For ‘Slick’ Solutions To Oil Spill Using teamwork and hands-on experimentation, a group of 12 youngsters, ages 7 to 10, discovered Tuesday afternoon, July 20, that containing and cleaning up an oil spill — even one of just two tablespoons — is harder than it looks, and that many solutions result in new problems that must be resolved. Read More...	7/29/2010 2:17:03 PM
25.6	Reusable Shopping Bags May Carry More Than Groceries Billions of reusable shopping bags travel from home to store and back again, a response of the environmentally conscious American opposed to the one-use plastic bags. Over the past decade, cloth bags or bags made of nonwoven polypropylene, many imprinted with the name of a business or organization, have become a common sight in supermarkets, libraries, and other businesses where disposable bags once ruled the scene. Read More...	7/29/2010 1:05:17 PM
25.6	Consumer Education Critical When Treating Pets For Ticks And Fleas People and pets go together like love and marriage, horse and carriage, or lock and key. For approximately 30,000 years, humans have held the dog near and dear to their hearts, as a helper and as a friend. Cats were probably first domesticated around the year 7,000 BC, when humans began storing grain, to keep the grain-loving mice in check. Read More...	7/29/2010 12:48:55 PM


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