Week of October 23, 2015

Newtown Bee staff photos taken for the October 23, 2015, print edition of the paper.

The Newtown Lions Club conducted its Sixth Annual Great Pumpkin Race October 17 behind Edmond Town Hall, featuring some fiercely competitive gourd racers and several other seasonal diversions, including pumpkin bowling, bobbing for apples, and the ever-popular hurling of pumpkins into the woods by Mark Michaud and Don Ramsey’s pumpkin trebuchet. Here, Aidan Lourenco, 7, is shown with his pumpkin, BB8 from Star Wars. (Hutchison photo)

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The Newtown Lions Club conducted its Sixth Annual Great Pumpkin Race October 17 behind Edmond Town Hall, featuring some fiercely competitive gourd racers and several other seasonal diversions, including pumpkin bowling, bobbing for apples, and the ever-popular hurling of pumpkins into the woods by Mark Michaud and Don Ramsey’s pumpkin trebuchet. Here, Aidan Lourenco, 7, is shown with his pumpkin, BB8 from Star Wars. (Hutchison photo)

Great Pumpkin Race

$Police report that a chain-reaction accident involving three commercial vehicles occurred about 1:50 pm on October 15 on Washington Avenue just south of its intersection with Riverside Road, Glen Road, and Church Hill Road. Police said that that trucker Thomas Kapustynski, 61, of Ansonia, who was driving a 2016 Hino box truck (far right), was waiting at a red traffic signal. Terrence Richardson, 44, of Brooklyn, N.Y., who was driving a 2012 Ford van (center), was waiting behind the Hino, police said. William DeJesus, 38, of South Windsor, who was driving a 2011 Chevrolet van (foreground), then struck the rear end of the Ford, pushing the Ford into the rear end of the Hino, police said. Newtown Volunteer Ambulance Corps evaluated DeJesus at the scene, police said. Sandy Hook volunteer firefighters responded to the accident. Police said they issued DeJesus an infraction for failure to drive a reasonable distance apart. (Hicks photo)$

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