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With work progressing well at the Timothy B. Treadwell Memorial Park in Sandy Hook, Parks and Recreation officials are optimistically predicting that construction work on the $500,000 project will be finished by the end of December, according to Parks & Rec Director Robert Ceccolini. Four tennis courts at Timothy B. Treadwell Memorial Park are sporting lined green playing surfaces surrounded by tan out-of-bounds areas. The courts, near the Philo Curtis Road entrance to the park, frame the playing fields constructed as part of the first phase.
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Another intent to sue the Town of Bethel regarding the fatal accident on September 10 in which four Newtown teenagers died has been received by Bethel Town Clerk Herbert Clarkson. Meanwhile, both Newtown and Bethel Police Departments have been waiting for a toxicology report on the alleged driver of the 1978 El Camino in which six teenagers were riding. Bethel police have requested a State Police reconstruction of the accident as well.
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Charred paper towels and a blackened lavatory wall show the effects of arson at Newtown High School in Sandy Hook last week. At 10 am Wednesday, November 10, police said a person started the fire with paper towels in one of the boysâ bathrooms near the Home Economics Department. The fire was contained within the room and quickly extinguished by school personnel.
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Commission on Aging member Charles St Arnauld and representatives of the Housatonic Area Regional Transit District have compiled a list of guidelines in an effort to smooth out kinks in the minibus service. The meeting with HART was prompted by complaints about schedule changes since the bus service was cut as a result of budget reductions. The guidelines will be distributed to minibus users.
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William E. Smith, vice president and chief actuary of TR Paul Inc, has announced the acquisition of Cheshire Pension Services Inc. The acquisition expands the Newtown-based employee benefit consulting firmâs service capabilities and will increase the number of corporate pension and profit sharing plans under the companyâs management to over 1,100.
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In response to an order by the Newtown zoning enforcement officer to âcease and desistâ its operations, the Lumia Theatre of Light on Route 34 in Sandy Hook is seeking a variance of the zoning regulations so that it can continue operating legally when it reopens next May for its Saturday evening performances which run from May through October. The Lumia Kinetic Art consists of light images projected on translucent screen, to the accompaniment of music.
November 22, 1957
About 25 persons attended the Friday evening special town meeting held in the Alexandria Room of Edmond Town Hall when action was taken to amend and adopt an ordinance for Newtown regulating the disposal of garbage and other waste. Wilton Lackaye questioned the provision for a âpermitâ inquiring as to whether it applies to everyone. There will be no fee for a permit, but such a system is necessary as there will be only one attendant at the disposal area.
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The Newtown Methodist Church is celebrating the 250th anniversary of Charles Wesleyâs birth at a special service to be held in the church this Sunday evening, November 24, at 7 pm. Charles Wesley was the first Methodist. As a student at Oxford University he gathered about a band of friends for religious meditation, self-examination, and self-expression. This group became known as the Holy Club and were nicknamed Methodists.
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Last Sunday afternoon the Most Reverend Lawrence J. Shehan, bishop of the Bridgeport diocese, administered the sacrament o confirmation to 167 children and 15 adults at St Rose Church. An honor guard delegation from the Rev John D. Kennedy Assembly Fourth Degree, Knights of Columbus Danbury escorted Bishop Shehan and the participating priests from the rectory to the church.
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The State Liquor Control Commission has denied the application of Richard E. Lyon for the removal of a package store from Route 6, Danbury-Newtown Road, to Church Hill Road. The commission denied the application on the ground that removal of the permit to the Church Hill Road location, at the Village Texaco Servicenter, would be in violation of the Zoning regulations in the borough.
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Elsted Farm, managed by William Wakeley and owned by E.M. Buckley, was the subject of a two-page article in the November Eastern States Cooperator. E.M. Bulkley is a New York businessman who purchased the former Green Oaks Farm in Newtown and renamed it Elsted. Bulkley and Manager Wakeley have been building up the herd production to one of the best in the state.
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Newtownâs annual Christmas gift-giving program for patients of Fairfield Hills Hospital will again be under the chairmanship of Mrs Charles Tribby of Still Hill Road with Mrs John Mason acting as co-chairman. Within the next week, boxes will be placed in local stores which will serve as collecting stations where townspeople may leave gifts which will be distributed to the patients at parties held throughout the hospital during the holiday season.
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November 18, 1932
The Newtown AC will open the 1932-33 basketball season this Thursday evening at the Edmond gym. The NAC plan to play preliminary games to the Bridgeport Iroquois game. A newly organized Woodbury team has been booked for the opening game. Due to the fact that two new players have been added to the local lineup, namely âBobâ Gans, captain and star of last yearâs Hawley High team, and âGilâ Davenport, a member of the Pecknon, a much more successful season than the last one is anticipated.
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On Thursday, November 15, at the Congregational church parlors 20 Red Cross workers met and sewed all day on cotton garments for the needy. The work was under the direction of Mrs Grace B. Beers, who had been chosen general chairman of the sewing division of Red Cross Work here.
There was a great outpouring of citizens at the funeral, Sunday afternoon, of Charles A. Peale, superintendent of the Fabric Fire Hose Co, secretary of the School Board, and past master of Hiram lodge, F & AM and past high priest of the Hiram chapter, No 1., RAM. The house was completely filled by a truly mourning company, while many stood silently outside. The burial took place in the Newtown Village cemetery.
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Trinity will have a harvest home festival service, next Sunday morning, and there will be no service on Thanksgiving day. The rector asked the Congregation to make donations of fruits, vegetables, or money so that distribution might be made after the service to those who are in need. The church will be appropriately decorated with symbols of harvest time and special music will mark the day.
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Starting next Tuesday evening at 8 oâclock, instructions in contract bridge will be given by Emily R. Hutchinson, a teacher widely known as an authority on contract bridge and formerly a bridge instructor in New York City, at the home of Mrs Orrin W. Mills. Teams of two must be formed before entering, as the Howell point system will be used. The charges will be 75 cents per person.
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Donald A. Griscom, organist and choirmaster of Trinity church already winning fame as a musical composer, has just written the music for a lovely Christmas carol, the words of which were written specially for him by the rector of Trinity. Rev Dr Richmond H. Gesner dedicated the simple little carol to Choirmaster Griscom and the choir of his church. The choir expects to sing the new composition at a service on Christmas Eve, December 24.
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November 22, 1907
The Hillside club is to give a whist party on Friday evening of this week, November 22, for the benefit of the Library. A cordial invitation is extended to the public to be present and have a pleasant evening and incidentally help along a worthy cause. The affair is in charge of Lawrence Taylor, Attorney Beecher and John Beers and they have secured a number of prizes and made all the necessary arrangements for an enjoyable evening.
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E.J. Hall has installed a new Stamford furnace in the residence of Edward Taylor. Mr and Mrs Taylor have a beautifully furnished home, and this last innovation does away with the terrors of King Winter. The radiators for the steam heating at the Sandy Hook hotel have arrived and will be installed in a few days.
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Charles H. Northrop, ex-treasurer of Newton, who has been in the Fairfield County jail since November 5, on a charge of embezzlement of town funds, was released, Wednesday, on a bond for $5,000 furnished by his father, Ex-Senator William N. Northrop, and Harry Greenblat, proprietor of the summer hotel on Botsford Hill. Mr Northrop came to Newtown on the 5 oâclock train in company with his father and his brother, John J. Northrop.
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Superintendent W.B. Glover of the Newtown Water Co has been busy for 10 days laying the 2,000-foot extension of the four inch main, across the hill to the residence of William T. Cole.
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George R. Wilson has bought out the milk route of L.C. Nicholson. Mr Nicholson has faithfully served his trade for about four years, not missing a delivery in the most severe weather.