April 16, 1993

Following a mid-day hearing on Monday, April 12, Judge Edward Stodolink issued a $400,000 prejudgment remedy in favor of The Bee Publishing Company Inc, against Rudolph Mazurosky, publisher of Southbury-based Voices. The action allows Bee Publishing to attach two parcels of property owned by the defendant, one commonly known as Far View Commons, Unit 18A, in Southbury, and the other known as 69 Quail Run Road, Woodbury. The pending lawsuit is charging Mr Mazurosky and his company, Prime Publishers, Inc, with breech of contract in the sale of two community papers, The Weekly Star and Town Times, last October.

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Masons this week continued construction on the Treadwell Park swimming pool complex, building the new poolhouse block by block. Construction workers have labored at the Sandy Hook site through the winter as weather permitted, said Peter Welling, of Grasso Construction Company, project manager. Grasso is the general contractor. During February the pool work was ahead of schedule, but inclement weather during March slowed work. "We're in pretty good shape," Mr Welling said. Work is moving along on schedule for a Fourth-of-July opening.

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Last week we reported on plans by town officials to secure a $65,000 grant to improve the 103-year-old Victorian truss bridge in Sandy Hook that used to connect Dayton Street with Glen Road. Once a single-lane bridge for vehicle traffic, the span would only be upgraded for use by pedestrians and bicycles, not motorists. The town's community development director believes this project will fit in nicely with the town's goal of creating a Pootatuck River greenbelt. She has even suggested that it would serve as a stimulus for other improvements in Sandy Hook Center. Because it has been closed to vehicular traffic for so long, the bridge has remained unaltered over the years and stands today as one of the state's best examples of the wrought-iron Platt through-truss design developed in the Victorian era.

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Easter may be over, but the Parks and Recreation Department will try one more time to have its Easter egg hunt for children ages 3 through 9. The annual egg hunt at Dickinson Park has been postponed the last two Saturdays due to rain and muddy grounds. Hoping the third time is the charm, Parks and Rec has scheduled the egg hunt for Saturday, April 17, starting at the park pavilion near the tennis courts.

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A spring fashion show featuring fashion from The Dress Barn will be held at the St Rose of Lima parish hall at 7:30 pm on Wednesday, April 21. Sponsored by the St Rose Women's Club, the fashion show is open to the public. Tickets are $2 for members and $3 for nonmembers and may be purchased at the door. Door prizes and refreshments will be available. A raffle will be held.

April 19, 1968

After many delays and setbacks, plans for moving the old Middle Gate School finally came to a head Monday afternoon as the building was pulled onto Route 25 for its trip of a little more than half a mile to the grounds of the new Middle Gate School on Cold Spring Road. The moving operation went off like clockwork, with Arthur Venning of Danbury in charge. Within half an hour of the time the structure started to move, it was at the new site and ready to be lowered onto an awaiting foundation. Now that the old schoolhouse has been relocated, Newtown Historical Society will begin the operation of restoration with John Stefanko of Sandy Hook contracted for the work. The schoolhouse door faces the new school building from the bend in Cold Spring Road. At present, the entire back of the building has been removed. This was done when it was found that an addition had been added to the schoolhouse at a later date. The size of the building is now back to the original and restoration plans are ready to begin.

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BOYS ON BICYCLES: The fine spring weather has made both bicycles and automobiles sprout in great profusion. The Bee has been asked to remind the cyclists that they must obey the road rules for automobiles. According to officer Kenneth Shaw, they must use the same signals, carry head and tail lights and horns, drive in the established lanes, and abide by traffic laws.

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The Newtown Office, The Connecticut National Bank, Queen Street, is pleased to announce an art exhibit by Mary Bohn of Brushy Hill Road. The exhibit at this time is "Spring Is The Alchemist." In a statement to bank manager Nelson Denny, Mrs Bohn said, "Just as music is not a warm bath to be gotten into, painting is not a bandage to protect the eye. I hope to stir the inner eye to some emotional association long remembered or perhaps unexpectedly awaited, but with feeling. In many of these paintings the artist has taken conventional subjects and put them in nonconventional light or perspective in an attempt to illustrate metamorphosing transitions."

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Bright and early Monday morning, about 50 Senior Pilgrim Fellowship members from three towns, and their six adult advisors boarded a chartered bus behind the Edmond Town Hall at the start of the trip to Elon children's home at Elon College, North Carolina. The home is operated by the United Church of Christ for orphaned and other needy children. The young people are from Newtown, Plymouth, and South Britain. A sightseeing junket is scheduled for Washington D.C. on the return trip.

April 23, 1943

Newtown has gone well over the top in the Second War Loan Drive, investing to date, $344,455, to beat a quota of $319,000. Mr Arthur T. Nettleton, in charge, is to be complimented, and the town congratulated. In the words of Mr Nettleton, however, it is to be hoped that townspeople will not at the present figure. Every possible dollar is needed in the war effort.

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On Monday evening the local bowling matches held by Newtown Bowling League at the Edmond alleys came to their final conclusion when the Ducks, captained by George Canfield, winners of the first half of the league schedule, rolled the Robins captained by Arthur Carmody. The Robins were the winners of the second half of the league schedule. The Ducks on Monday won two out of three matches, thereby claiming the championship.

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A most successful mother and daughter banquet was held by the Girl Scouts on Monday evening at the Congregational Church, with 76 mothers, daughters, and guests attending. Miss Caroline Duke, director of Girl Scouts work in the Bridgeport area, and Mrs Andrews, field captain, were also present. Fifteen new scouts received pins. During the evening, Ms Duke showed moving pictures taken of the Scouts at camp Trefoil in Stepney, which were very much enjoyed.

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Friends will be interested to know that the editor of The Bee has recently received a letter from Rev. William G. Wright, former rector of Trinity church, who with his family is now located in El Paso, Texas, where he is rector of the Church of St Clement. He reports that they are much pleased with the church and their new home. Before receiving his call to the El Paso church, Rev Wright was rector of a church on Cleveland, Ohio.

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THE BEE HAS A WEEK FULL OF TROUBLES. In addition to illness, which overtook "Lindy" Crouch and "Charlie" Cavanaugh of The Bee staff last week, The Bee office was plagued with an attack of mechanical failure, when several teeth on the pinion gear of the usually well-behaved Goss press gave way during the Thursday morning press run. An SOS brought Reg Watkins in a hurry, and an effort was made to complete the afternoon run. But the press just wouldn't behave, and so it was necessary to shut down, while a spare gear was installed, Mr Watkins greatly aiding the depleted Bee staff in the task. As a result, the paper was off the press at about 9 o'clock, instead of the usual 5 pm. New parts were ordered from Chicago and there is hope that so much difficulty will not happen again, all in one week.

April 19, 1918

"BIGIE" LOSES HIS FAT ROLL, SNEAK THIEF ENTERS HIS ROOM AT NIGHT AND RIFLES HIS POCKETS WHILE HE DREAMS AND SNOOZES IN BLISS:  When Mamert Woicehowski got up on Sunday morning he found that his house had been entered by burglars and $37 which had been in his trouser pockets, laid across the foot of the bed, had been taken. The burglars tried to force entrance to the cellar but found the door bolted on the inside. He notified Deputy Sheriff Morris D. Beers, who began at once to search for the thieves, but at present writing, has been unable to find them. "Bigie" is one of Newtown's thrifty, hardworking citizens and this certainly is too bad.

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The interior of the Newtown Post Office is shining in a new dress of paint.

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An epidemic of the whooping cough is reported among the school children of the town. Chicken pox and Liberty measles are also prevalent.

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Dr J.P. Hoyt of St Petersburg, Fla., is known to many of our readers. All who know him love him. The Pilgrim Press has recently published a neat little booklet by Dr Hoyt on, "Life Beyond Death - The Unity of Life in the Seen and Unseen World." The book is charmingly written and will help many sorrowing hearts. The following quotation from the frontispiece: "The time may not be far off when to lose a friend by death will be hardly more than to have him cross the ocean; when our own passing will be merely the happy setting sail for a new country." It is a book which we recommend to all of our readers.

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Edward Benedict and family of New York have arrived at their summer home on Mile Hill. For a week they have been stopping with the Misses Peck while their house is being made ready.Please consider sharing your old photographs of people and places from Newtown or Sandy Hook with The Newtown Bee readers. Images can be e-mailed to kendra@thebee.com, or brought to the office at 5 Church Hill Road to be scanned. When submitting photographs, please identify as many people as possible, the location, and the approximate date.

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An old family photo provided by former resident Paul Sedor shows the barn owned by William Sedor on the corner of Hawleyville Road (Route 25) and Farrell Road. According to Paul, a truck loaded with cola bottles reportedly once crashed there and rolled over. A few years later a truck loaded with concrete came down the hill and ran into the Sedor house, knocking it about two feet off its foundation. In approximately 1952 the road was straightened to remove the bad curve.

-photo courtesy Paul Sedor