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November 19, 1999 HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER of Kate Ryan. * * * * * 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...

November 12, 1999 HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER of Tom McNeil. * * * * * Moviegoers who went to the early show at Edmond Town Hall Theatre on November 6 discovered at 7 pm that they were in for more than just a screening of the romantic comedy The Runaway ...

November 5, 1999 In about two weeks some Florida students, not accustomed to the splendor of autumnal New England, will have a chance to bury themselves in a flamboyant fall foliage. They have only to thank Newtown residents Kate and Ben Striano...

October 29, 1999 HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER OF Betty Presnell. * * * * * The state Department of Correction (DOC) has moved 60 of the state’s “most problematic” high-security prisoners from Garner Correctional Institution on Nunnawauk Road to a state pr...

October 22, 1999 HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER OF Donald MacKenzie. * * * * * A group of five local builders has filed a lawsuit against the Conservation Commission, seeking to overturn revised wetlands regulations recently approved by the commission, whic...

October 15, 1999 HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER OF Monica Defeo. * * * * * EDITORIAL INK DROPS — NO NEED FOR FURTHER DELAY ON QUEEN STREET: Not too many towns own their own little neighborhood, but last July 11 the Town of Newtown took title to a row of vac...

October 8, 1999 HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER OF Caroline Stokes. * * * * * The development of Avalon at Newtown, a proposed 304-unit rental apartment complex envisioned for Hawleyville, has withdrawn its two development applications from review by the Pla...

October 1, 1999 HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER OF Joan Tynan. * * * * * The funeral for Stephen Mazuroski, 24, who was killed during an automobile accident during the early hours of last Friday morning was held Monday. “Stephen was always a teacher of life;...

September 24, 1999 HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER OF Dot Cavanaugh. * * * * * EDITORIAL INK DROPS — NEWTOWN’S WELL-INFORMED PUBLIC: The experts came to the high school auditorium armed with projectors, charts, and briefcases bulging with back-up documentati...

September 17, 1999 HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER OF Ken Wilkinson. * * * * * Leon Barkman returned home Monday from a week-long trip to the Midwest where he climbed to the highest points in the states of Missouri, Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota, Iowa, and ...