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The Newtown Ambulance Association is getting some more elbow room. Construction of the long-awaited addition is well underway. The 1,500-square-foot structure should be completed in about four weeks.

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The Board of Fire Commissioners decided September 24 it will seek the town’s permission to replace the United Fire Company of Botsford Truck 51, rather than merely replacing the body and tank on the truck. Since Truck 51 is 13 years old and costly repairs might extend its life by only five or ten more years, Commission Chairman Paul Raider said the commission figures it would be more sensible to spend another $30,000 or so and buy a new pumper which could last 20 years.

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A written proposal outlining steps to prevent a recurrence of leachate seeps from F. Francis D’Addario’s Button Shop Road landfill provoked the Conservation Commission on Wednesday, September 26, to unanimously decide to postpone for two weeks a hearing on a cease and desist order issued against the dump.

 

October 2, 1959

Parties and individual candidates wind up their campaigns over the weekend in preparation for the biennial town election, Monday, from 6 am to 6 pm. The election will be followed at 8 pm by the annual town meeting — Newtown’s 249th session. Biggest change for this election is the use, for the first time, of the Sandy Hook Elementary School as the voting place for the second district.

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Ninety years old, but new and more entertaining each year, says General Manager John W. Leahy and Assistant C. Irving Jarvis of the Great Danbury State Fair, which opens October 3 for nine consecutive days. The fair grounds, located between Routes 6 and 7 in the Sugar Hollow district, is a humdrum of activity as final preparations are made to present the greatest show possible for the more than 150,000 visitors expected.

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Lester Reynolds, Democratic candidate for the office of First Selectman, states that in the event of his election to this office it is his intention to devote considerable time and personal supervision to the town’s road program. He further intends to institute a system of accurate accounting for town supplies, equipment and materials and a planned work program.

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The 22nd Annual Letter Writing Week will be celebrated in Newtown, Sandy hook, Botsford, and Hawleyville post offices during the week of October 4 to 10, it has recently been announced by the respective postmasters. The postmasters said that the special week should serve as a reminder to write long-overdue letters to servicemen, hospitalized patients, foreign acquaintances, faraway friends and relatives, and others who will welcome a personal letter.

September 28, 1934

TRINITY PARISH: The committee making arrangements for the college whist are much gratified at the list of players already reserved. The whist will be held in the Guild rooms of Trinity church and the play will begin promptly at 8 o’clock. The charge is 50 cents per player.

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The month of August was relatively dry and late blight did not develop on potatoes to any considerable extent, this year. Production is now forecast at 2,475,000 bushels compared with 2,080,000 bushels last year. For New England as a whole, the potato crop is forecast at 58,475,000 bushels.

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The Dutch elm disease has progressively made its way into Connecticut and grave fears are felt by authorities in a number of State that New England may be swept clear of its beautiful elms before the disease can be controlled. So far in our State it has been found in Greenwich, Stamford, Norwalk and Darien and probably by the time this warning is printed it has spread to other localities, for the small elm beetle, carrier of the fungus, is no respector of boundary lines.

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W.M. McKenzie has established himself a reputation as a raiser of luscious watermelons. In the spring the editor of The Bee assured him that he could not raise them. On Friday he presented Business Manager Paul S. Smith with a luscious watermelon.

 

October 1, 1909

O.F. Terrell of Hawleyville has moved his new barn, which he built last year, onto the foundation which he has just built on the front part of his lot and is converting it into a house and market.

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James Lee is having new roofs placed on his creamery at Hawleyville. Mr Lee began October 1 paying the farmers who furnish him milk at his creamery the exchange price for their milk and expects to do so during the winter months.

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Charles E. Minor, while returning from Bridgeport, Sunday night, had a narrow escape from death at the Newtown station. As the train was pulling into the Newtown station in some way he stepped between the platform and the moving train. The big toe on one foot was mashed, but fortunately he was not pulled under the wheels.

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Highway Commissioner MacDonald has awarded the state highway contract in Newtown, extending from the head of Newtown Street to the Monroe line, to the B.N. Beard Co. of Shelton. The price is in the neighborhood of $55,000. The road is to be of gravel, with foundations wherever the highway commissioner and selectmen may decide it is necessary.