An unexplained computer error resulted in incorrect credits being reported for most of the high school’s 1,400 plus students. Since Wednesday of last week, when report cards were received, guidance office secretary Mary Obre said the phone has literally never stopped ringing. The computer errors in credits — which will not affect 1980 graduate’s college acceptances — will be manually corrected by guidance counselors.

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Police are investigating a three vehicle accident which occurred on July 7 at approximately 1 am at The Blue Colony Diner. They report a pickup truck backed into a parked car, locked bumpers with it and dragged it through the lot, striking another car, and continued pulling the first car on to I-84 for about a mile.

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Erection of steel for the Newtown Health and Racquetball Club on Commerce Road has been proceeding rapidly since it was delivered two weeks ago, principal owner George Arfaras says. The 23,000 square foot facility is scheduled for opening around September.

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First Selectman Jack Rosenthal has asked the police department to assist him in warning people not to abuse the metal bridge on Glen Road over the Housatonic River, between Newtown and Southbury. Chief Louis Marchese said a more serious problem exists on the Newtown side because of the state rest area where people picnic. “After a few beers, they get brave and dive off the bridge,” he remarked.

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51 Newtown Middle School students qualified for a special certificate during the spring semester after participating in a special energy program revolving around the theme, “Youth for a Brighter Tomorrow.” The program, which is sponsored jointly by the Connecticut State Energy Division and the Cooperative Extension Service of the University of Connecticut, represents an effort to make school children in grades six and up aware of energy problems and the need for conservation.

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The Newtown High School music program will have its first full orchestra in September. Students already in the string ensemble will be joined by ninth grade string players to form a string section of 22 musicians plus brass, woodwinds and percussion instruments.

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One table was filled with Turkish natives, another with folks whose roots go to Argentina, and still others with people from a variety of foreign backgrounds. Not surprising, really, for this was a gathering of the International Club of Newtown, founded back in 1976. Members enjoyed a delicious Argentinean-style “asado” (barbeque) on Saturday, June 28, under the backyard trees of the gracious home of Andre and Veronica Simonpietri on Sherman Street in Sandy Hook.

July 15, 1955

An open meeting of 173 townspeople, called to consider the changing conditions in Newtown and need for town planning, voted unanimously Wednesday evening to solicit names of voters and property owners who are in favor of town planning.

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Newtown will be gaily decorated for the celebration of its 250th anniversary. Contracts are being closed which will result in the flagpole having three vertical streamers which will advertise the great day to all coming from north, south and east. There will also be streamers on the main roads into the borough. It is expected that decorations for all stores will be in the hands of professionals.

The Mother’s Club drive to place a number of New York City youngsters in Newtown homes for two-week vacations in cooperation with the New York Herald-Tribune Fresh Air Fund suffered a setback last week when some prospective hosts withdrew. The committee… appeals for the wholehearted cooperation of townspeople on behalf of the nine “left out in the heat.”

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The athletic field of Newtown High School will be alive with color and sound next Saturday, July 23, as the Sandy Hook Fife, Drum and Bugle Corps plays host to junior and senior musical units from several northeastern states in its first competitive meet on home grounds.

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An informal meeting of a number of business men of the town was held Monday evening at The Bee office, to discuss the feasibility of starting a Chamber of Commerce in Newtown.

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Now that title to the park site has passed to the town, members of the commission are cooperating with the 250th anniversary committee in readying the park for dedication ceremonies on August 6. Workmen have been engaged to cut the grass and two small foot bridges on Deep Brook have been repaired. A group of individual townspeople are donating a memorial plaque, suitably inscribed, to the memory of the late A. Fenn Dickinson which will be placed in the park at the dedication ceremonies.

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Classified: Colonial House, 11 rooms, completely renovated. 2 baths, 2 brooks, barn, 5 acres on good road. $30,000.

 

July 11, 1930

$5,744,208.46 TOTAL VALUE OF MISS MARY E. HAWLEY — Inventory Filed By the Executors In The Newtown Probate Court on Thursday. Arthur T. Nettleton and The Travelers Bank and Trust Co., of Hartford, Executors under the will of the late Miss Mary E. Hawley on Thursday filed with Judge Oscar Pitzschler in the Newtown Probate Court, the inventory of the Estate, which totals $5,744,208.46

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The handsome store and post-office building erected by E.C. Platt at Hawleyville is nearing completion. The new quarters will give Mr Platt a store 50 x 30 and a postoffice room, 18 x 18, with a private office outside. The building is located on the main road, just north of W.A. Honan’s store, and will be more convenient and accessible to the public than the old location.

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The new nine hole course at Eden Hill is becoming more and more popular as enthusiastic golfers are becoming better acquainted with this sporty and well laid out course. Being situated at so high an altitude a pleasant breeze is always felt, even on the hottest day.

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Contractor George A. Northrop had the misfortune to fall from a ladder on Tuesday last from a height of about 20 feet and striking a stone on his back. As the place where Mr Northrop was working is very much isolated, without phone service, it was about four hours before a doctor could be secured. It will be several weeks before Mr Northrop will be able to be about.

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Judge Oscar Pitzschler, the efficient town clerk, began, Monday, on the task of moving the books and records of the town clerk’s office to the handsome quarters in the new Edmond Town hall. The historic brick building which Judge Pitzschler is leaving, was erected in 1855. Judge Pitzschler’s new office is furnished with furniture of Colonial design and is large and ample in size.

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The large auditorium in the Edmond Town hall is practically completed and will seat about 675 people. The seats are the most comfortable that could be secured, and the great auditorium is a dream of beauty. Architect Sunderland has so designed the auditorium that it fulfills the requirements of a modern speaking stage, as well as a modern talking picture house.

July 14, 1905

Great preparations are making for the event of the summer in Newtown, the Bi-Centennial celebration, in honor of the first purchase of the land for the town from the Indians, to be held on August 5, at Ronald Park. Only fair weather is needed to promote the success of the celebration.

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The ice cream sale at the Beach Memorial Library building, Saturday night, was a great success, the cream being exhausted before 8 o’clock. The fine quality of the cream made by Mrs W.J. Beecher and Mrs S.C. Glover, the ladies in charge, was responsible for the rush. The sum of $11.15 was netted for the Library treasury.

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Fred Capewell, who lives near Bennett’s Bridge, killed a rattlesnake, last Saturday, in the road near Elliot Beardsley’s, which was four feet long and had 12 rattlers. This is no snake story, but actual fact.

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C.D. Stillson has been engaged to teach the Huntingtown school for another year. The old officers were re-elected at their annual school meeting. The district is fortunate in having so painstaking and popular a teacher.

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C.F. Webster, representing the Genesee Pure Food Company of LeRoy, N.Y. was a pleasant caller at The Bee office one day this week and before leaving presented the editor with two packages Jell-O Ice Cream Powder for making Ice Cream. This is the ice cream powder that received highest award gold medal at the St Louis Exposition 1904, and is pronounced the greatest pure food success of recent years.

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Michael Haugh of Botsford had the misfortune to fall, last week Thursday, in his barn, injuring his knee pan. Dr Kiernan dressed the knee and he is now as comfortable as could be expected.