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Published: Nov 22, 2024 at 04:00 PM
November 26, 1999
EDITORIAL INK DROPS — THANKSGIVING: Thanksgiving is the one Thursday in every year when our presses lie quiet. Our normal Thursday morning rush to deadline is moved up to Wednesday, and we take a day off in the middle of the we...
Published: Nov 22, 2024 at 08:00 AM
I know it’s bonfire season, which means s’mores, and gathering with friends around campfires or fire pits. Right now, however, is not the time to be doing that. I’m sorry friends, but there are some very serious dry conditions out there, and there ha...
Published: Nov 22, 2024 at 07:30 AM
Newtown’s five fire companies will once again join together the weekend before Thanksgiving to collect donations for the town’s food pantry.
The 2024 Fill The Fire Truck for FAITH Food Pantry — the 22nd annual presentation of the collection for the n...
Published: Nov 21, 2024 at 12:00 PM
MONROE — The theme of the 2024 Regional Hospice Newtown Giving Circle Breakfast was “It Takes A Village.” As Regional Hospice President and CEO ToniAnn Marchione said, the theme resonated with many in the room that morning because “that’s how we work...
Updated: Nov 20, 2024 at 08:37 AM
Family: My mother, father, and younger sister and her two children, who live in Pennsylvania; and here, my fiancée.
How did you meet your fiancée? We met at The Cadillac Ranch in Southington. It was a complete random by-chance meeting. When w...
Published: Nov 19, 2024 at 07:00 AM
On Friday, November 1, Newtown resident Peter Friedman and his co-writer, Grant Copeland, took temporary residence on the third floor of The Mattatuck Museum in Waterbury to share with the community their new book, I’ll Get the Tip: Moments Between t...
Published: Nov 17, 2024 at 08:00 AM
The Friends of the C.H. Booth Library sponsored its annual Fall Book Donation Day on October 27.
Hundreds of gently used books, DVDs, CDs, records, and puzzles in good condition were all donated by the public.
Donated items enable the Friends to rais...
Published: Nov 16, 2024 at 08:00 AM
Newtown will again host three tree lighting celebrations this holiday season. Sandy Hook will open the season with its event on December 7, Hawleyville will follow the next night, and the town’s original tree lighting event will return to Ram Pasture...
Published: Nov 16, 2024 at 08:00 AM
In late September, Hurricane Helene swept through the southeast leaving a path of catastrophic devastation. Much of the most serious damage and loss of life has occurred in western North Carolina in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Cities l...
Updated: Nov 16, 2024 at 12:41 PM
November 19, 1999
HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER of Kate Ryan.
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A prisoner at Garner Correctional Institution died Wednesday after a fight with another inmate at the high-security prison on Nunnawauk Road, officials said. The inmate, Bryant Wiseman...
