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    Newtown (/ˈnutaʊn/ NOO-town) is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. It is part of the Greater Danbury metropolitan area as well as...
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    a mass shooting occurred at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, United States. The perpetrator, 20-year-old Adam Lanza, shot and...
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  • Newtown High School is an accredited public high school in Newtown, Connecticut, United States. As of the 2021–2022 school year, the school serves 1,398...
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    Sandy Hook is a village in the town of Newtown, Connecticut, founded in 1711. It was listed as a census-designated place prior to the 2020 census. According...
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    The history of Newtown, Connecticut. Newtown Meeting House served as the town's Congregational Church for many years. The town of Newtown, originally known...
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  • Newtown Public Schools is a school district in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. As of 2013[update] it contained seven schools, with a total...
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    Newtown is a borough in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States, within the town of Newtown. The population was 1,941 at the 2010 census. A small...
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  • Murder of Helle Crafts (category Newtown, Connecticut)
    of Connecticut's first murder conviction without the victim's body. Helle Nielsen married Richard Crafts in 1975 and settled with him in Newtown, Connecticut...
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    Fairfield Hills Hospital (category Buildings and structures in Newtown, Connecticut)
    Hospital (as it was known after 1963) was a psychiatric hospital in Newtown, Connecticut, which operated from 1931 until 1995. At its peak, the hospital housed...
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    Route 25 was originally laid out as a toll road known as the Bridgeport and Newtown Turnpike in 1801. The Route 25 designation was assigned in 1932 to the...
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  • Newtown may refer to: Newtown, New South Wales Newtown, Queensland (Ipswich) Newtown, Queensland (Toowoomba) Newtown, Victoria, a suburb of Geelong Newtown...
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  • Hook Elementary School shooting occurred on December 14, 2012, in Newtown, Connecticut. The perpetrator, Adam Lanza, fatally shot his mother before murdering...
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  • Ovlov (category Newtown, Connecticut)
    Ovlov is an American rock band from Newtown, Connecticut. Ovlov began in 2009 with the release of an EP titled Crazy Motorcycle Jump. They followed that...
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    reporter and anchor from the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, as well as the site of the Boston Marathon bombing in April 2013...
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  • AC Connecticut is an American amateur soccer team based in Newtown, Connecticut, playing in USL League Two, the fourth tier of the American soccer pyramid...
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  • Sandy Hook may also refer to: Sandy Hook, Connecticut, a district within the town of Newtown, Connecticut Sandy Hook, Indiana, unincorporated community...
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    Newtown Savings Bank, is a full-service community bank and mortgage provider serving customers in Connecticut. The bank is headquartered in Newtown, Connecticut...
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    "Moisture-Proofing New Basements", Foundations and concrete work. Newtown, Connecticut: Taunton Press, 2003. 93. Print. "Rising Damp | Rising Damp Treatment"...
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  • part of his childhood in Tarrytown, New York, and later moved to Newtown, Connecticut, at age 10. Soffer boarded at The Gunnery, graduating in 2003. He...
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  • Victoria Leigh Soto (category Schoolteachers from Connecticut)
    December 27, 2015. Vignesh Ramachandran (January 14, 2013). "Connecticut school named for slain Newtown teacher Victoria Soto". nbcnews.com. Retrieved January...
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  • employees before committing suicide at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. Lanza had murdered his mother, who worked in the school, prior to...
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    Horace Smith (inventor) (category People from Newtown, Connecticut)
    when he moved to Newtown, Connecticut. He was employed by various gun makers up to the 1840s, when he moved to Norwich, Connecticut. He is then listed...
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  • Currents (band) (category Heavy metal musical groups from Connecticut)
    Currents is an American metalcore band formed in Newtown, Connecticut in 2011 by former drummer Jeff Brown. After numerous line-up changes, they consist...
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  • National Shooting Sports Foundation (category Newtown, Connecticut)
    national trade association for the firearms industry that is based in Newtown, Connecticut. Formed in 1961, the organization has more than 8,000 members: The...
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  • Obama attended and spoke at an interfaith vigil on December 16 in Newtown, Connecticut.  Australia – Prime Minister Julia Gillard issued a press release...
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  • Newtown Pride FC is an amateur American soccer team based in the Sandy Hook, part of Newtown, Connecticut. The team plays in the Connecticut Soccer League...
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    Florida 49 P58 2016 3 1 Virginia Tech shooting† Blacksburg, Virginia 32 VT23 2007 4 2 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting† Newtown, Connecticut 26 2 2012...
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    Botsford is a village of Newtown in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. The town of Newtown has one political body, but consists of multiple...
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  • reporter and covered stories including the John Edwards trial, the Newtown, Connecticut school shooting, the 2012 Democratic and Republican National conventions...
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    Bruce Degen (category Artists from Connecticut)
    Brooklyn Heights with his family until 1990. Afterwards, he lived in Newtown, Connecticut with his wife and their two sons, Benjamin and Alexander. Benjamin...
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