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As many as 80 Fairfield Hills Hospital workers gathered in front of Newtown Hall Wednesday, June 6, to protest a reorganization plan that will change the schedules and work places of many employees. Under the plan, 35 percent of the 720 patients living at Fairfield Hills Hospital will be moved to different wards and buildings. The treatment goal at the hospital is the patient’s quick return to community living, said the hospital representative. The new program will group patients according to their functional levels and needs.

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As Gail Smith handed the official YSIN stamp to the incoming chairman James Severnak, she did so with the knowledge that the organization, which she chaired and helped establish, is now a mature and firmly established youth agency. YSIN was officially endorsed as the town’s youth agency and a contract was signed in 1982 making this proposal official.

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Anyone who has ever produced a show with young people knows that if things can go wrong, they will. But Murphy’s Law was temporarily suspended for the talented dancers of the Stardust Revue last Friday night: Everything went perfectly. The performers in the thirty-second annual presentation of The Stardust Revue, 418 students, their teachers, and a dedicated backstage crew, made their own luck by being perfectly prepared.

 

June 12, 1959

Sixty-six students will graduate from Newtown High School at the commencement exercises to be held next Thursday evening, June 18, at 8 pm, at Edmond Town Hall. These 66 students, whose number almost doubles the 34 who made up the class of 1958, will hear Dr Leonard W. Joll of the State Department of Education speak on “The Future and You.”

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Memorial Day flag lowering ceremonies were held at the Newtown Country Club when the members of the club gathered at a cocktail party and dedicated a new flagpole and flag to the club. Miss Cheryl Smith sounded retreat as Joseph Hellauer lowered the flag.

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The Yankee Snack Bar, located in the parking area at Dickinson Park, is owned by Carl Lemb and operated under his direction. The snack stand, which opened on Memorial Day, has already proved very popular. It serves ice cream, soda, cheese sandwiches and hot dogs.

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Last Friday evening, June 5, a pantry shower was held at the Newtown Methodist Church parsonage for the Rev Thomas M. Dicken. A large group of church members and friends filled the parsonage cabinets with food, then adjourned to the church for refreshments and a hymn sing.

June 8, 1934

The rules to cover the chopping contest which will be held at the Boy Scout Jamboree in Bridgeport, Saturday night, June 23, are as follows: 1. Axes used will not exceed three and one-fourth pounds nor have longer than a 28-inch handle. 2. The contest will be chopping against time. 3. The test will be to cut through a six-eight inch log on the ground. 4. Two contestants may enter from each troop. 5. There will be an axe inspection. 6. Condition of axe and form in chopping may be rated.

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A sale of articles made by members of the Occupational classes of the Fairfield State hospital, is being held this week. The public are invited to look the articles over and purchase such as they may desire. The articles are very attractive and many of them beautiful.

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Mr and Mrs John Holleran and Miss Veronica Holleran of Watertown figured in a bad auto accident, Friday night about 7 o’clock when their car overturned at the foot of Newtown Street, just below Lovell’s garage. The accident was caused by a hit and run driver who cut in ahead of the Holleran car from the Bethel road. The Holleran car turned over on its side across the road. Mr and Mrs Holleran and Miss Holleran were taken to the office of Dr E.L. Kingman.

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The Mardi Gras for the benefit of the Newtown Yankee baseball team of the Intertown league will open at the lot at the rear of the Hurd building in the center of Sandy Hook this Thursday night and will continue until the night of June 23. There will be dancing each night on the large dance floor of the Hurd building.

 

June 11, 1909

The young daughter of Mr and Mrs James B. Nichols got a needle in her throat, Friday afternoon. A.F. Clarke kindly loaned his automobile and chauffeur and the child was taken to the office of Dr Edward M. Smith in Bridgeport, where the needle was quickly extracted. The little miss is now doing nicely.

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Jones Brothers of Dodgingtown, who purchased the horse, Quaker Boy, of Howard Bassett, had the misfortune to lose him, last week. They were driving him along the road when he suddenly reared up and fell back dead. Quaker Boy is well known among the horsemen of this locale and was owned for several years by C.G. Peck.

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Israel Nezveskey of Huntingtown is enlarging his house by building a large addition on the south and west sides, more than doubling the size of his house.

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A great many Newtown people are going to see Ringling circus at Bridgeport on Friday, June 25. It will be the only opportunity this year and the railroads are preparing to handle thousands of visitors from the surrounding territory. Instead of the usual single thriller presented by other circuses, The Ringling Brothers are heading their bill with no less than seven of the greatest and most sensational acts that have ever been presented anywhere on earth.