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Newtown Public Schools invites everyone to the Bridgeport Islanders’ Hockey Fights Cancer Night, when the team will honor and support those affected by cancer at one of their games. The special event is planned for Saturday, November 23. Puck drop is...

Paul Stuart Patterson of Bethel passed away on November 16, 2024, surrounded, as he would have wished, by his wife Mary and family. Paul was born on January 7, 1938, in Bedford, Ohio, the third of four children to his parents, Charles M. Patterson an...

Kenneth Floyd Doersch Jr, 76 of Sandy Hook, passed away in Danbury Hospital on November 12, 2024. He was born on October 26, 1948 in Nyack, New York. He was a son of Kenneth Floyd Doersch Sr and Joyce Emily Holliday Doersch. He was a graduate of Clar...

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...

Beth Ellen Burroughs, 70, of Newtown passed away peacefully on November 15, 2024 at Yale New Haven Hospital after a hard fought four-year-long battle with aplastic anemia (bone marrow failure). Beth was born on December 1, 1953, in Bridgeport, to Wil...

Head O’Meadow Elementary School honored veterans with an outdoor flag raising ceremony, followed by a breakfast in the school’s cafeteria, on Monday, November 11. The school started its annual Veterans Day celebrations outside the building, where stu...

St Rose of Lima School honored veterans with an assembly in the school’s gym on Monday, November 11. Students from grades 3-8, as well as St Rose staff, were in attendance for the special occasion. The event started with students and staff singing “G...

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...

The Honorable William (Bill) J. Lavery, a distinguished jurist, respected senior judge, and pillar of the Newtown community, passed away peacefully at his home on November 14, 2024, at 86, surrounded by his family. Known for his wisdom, fairness, and...

Newtown Middle School honored veterans with a special Veterans Day Breakfast & Celebration event on Monday, November 11. Students and staff brought in veterans for a special breakfast held in the school’s cafeteria, which was all decked out for the o...