Week of October 30, 2015

Newtown Bee staff photos taken for the October 30, 2015, print edition of the paper.

Newtown High School students celebrated the school’s annual Italian Heritage Day on Friday, October 16. This is the 12th year the school has conducted the event, which included some students researching topics for posters, some making slideshows, others preparing food, and all students decorating T-shirts for a contest. NHS world language teacher Laura Battisti, standing front right, and instructor Tim Lalli, back right, judged the T-shirts. “It’s about finding a connection with the culture,” Ms Battisti said of the day’s projects and celebrations. (Hallabeck photo)

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Newtown High School students celebrated the school’s annual Italian Heritage Day on Friday, October 16. This is the 12th year the school has conducted the event, which included some students researching topics for posters, some making slideshows, others preparing food, and all students decorating T-shirts for a contest. NHS world language teacher Laura Battisti, standing front right, and instructor Tim Lalli, back right, judged the T-shirts. “It’s about finding a connection with the culture,” Ms Battisti said of the day’s projects and celebrations. (Hallabeck photo)

NHS Students Celebrate Italian Heritage Day

$A two-vehicle accident that occurred on eastbound Berkshire Road (State Route 34), just east of its intersection with Pole Bridge Road, at about 8:45 am on October 27, caused extended travel delays in the area, with police, fire, and ambulance crews responding to the incident. Police report that motorist Carol Casillo, 57, of 3 Walker Hill Road, who was driving a 2006 Subaru Outback station wagon, stopped for traffic conditions. Police said motorist Christopher Testani, 24, of Shelton, who was driving a 2007 Toyota Camry sedan, then rounded a curve in the road and was blinded by sun glare, after which the Toyota struck the rear end of the Subaru. Casillo reported pain and was transported by the Newtown Volunteer Ambulance Corps to Danbury Hospital, according to police. Sandy Hook Volunteer Fire & Rescue Company members responded to the accident. Testani received an infraction for failure to drive a reasonable distance apart, police said. (Gorosko photo)$

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