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April 28, 2000 HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER of Debra Sennefelder. * * * * * EDITORIAL INK DROPS — SPRING CLEANING: A lot of beautiful things get cast up out of the ground in the spring. When April showers permit, a walk along almost any road or highway wi...

April 21, 2000 HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER of Deborah Osborne. * * * * * The Board of Selectmen this week said it needs more information from the Fairfield Hills advisory committee before it makes a recommendation to the Legislative Council on whether or...

April 14, 2000 HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER of Fawn Schmidt. * * * * * The state Department of Labor has decided against paying unemployment benefits to former police chief James E. Lysaght, Jr, deciding he was terminated from his $65,280 annual post by t...

April 7, 2000 EDITORIAL INK DROPS — A TAX BREAK FOR SENIORS: A proposal to provide senior citizens in Newtown with tax abatements appears to be back on the agenda of the Legislative Council after several weeks of inactivity on the issue. The cou...

March 31, 2000 HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER OF Fran Ashbolt. * * * * * The lawyer representing former police chief James E. Lysaght, Jr said Wednesday an administrative appeal, through which Mr Lysaght will seek to regain the police chief’s post, would be...

March 24, 2000 EDITORIAL INK DROPS — BUDGET 2000: THE BEST WE CAN DO: Now that all the inter-departmental wrangling over budget numbers has concluded, the Legislative Council is prepared to present a plan for nearly $69 million in spending to th...

March 17, 2000 HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER of Joe Ratyna. * * * * * * Town agents, state police, and FBI agents are investigating the March 13 robbery of Fleet Bank on Queen Street, which was the first local theft from a bank since a 1905 bank burglary. ...

March 10, 2000 EDITORIAL INK DROPS — THE FUTURE OF GARNER: Connecticut’s Commissioner of the Department of Corrections, John Armstrong told state legislators last week that he would like to add 1,700 prison cells at existing facilities in the st...

March 3, 2000 HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER OF Carol Mahoney. * * * * * Newtown High School girls’ basketball captured the South West Conference championship last Friday. The Nighthawks defeated New Fairfield, 46-45, for the title in a game played at Pompe...

February 25, 2000 HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER of Lauren Manheimer. * * * * * Understanding that sometimes “the best ideas come from the least expected sources,” members of the Fairfield Hills Advisory Committee met with the public late last week to solic...