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Task force: Tear down, rebuild Sandy Hook Elementary

Last updated Saturday, May 11, 2013 - 9:23am

NEWTOWN, Conn. — Newtown parents Steven Uhde and Peter Barresi didn’t want the town to abandon the elementary school property where 20 first-graders and six educators were killed in December and build a new school elsewhere, saying that would be like letting the gunman win.

So they were glad Friday night when a task force of 28 local elected officials voted unanimously for a plan calling for tearing down Sandy Hook Elementary School and constructing a new building on the same property.

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Newtown struggling with what to do with school

Dave Collins The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, May 4, 2013 - 8:32am

NEWTOWN, Conn. -- Newtown officials struggled Friday night to move toward a decision on what to do with the elementary school where 20 first-graders and six educators were shot to death in December, after teachers expressed grief and frustration during a closed-door session before a public meeting was held.

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A sign welcomes Sandy Hook Elementary school children on their first day of classes near the former Chalk School in Monroe, Conn., Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013. Classes resumed Thursday for the students of the school where a gunman last month burst in and killed 20 children and six adults before killing himself. It was the second largest school shooting in the U.S. history. With their school still being treated as a crime scene, the more than 400 students of Sandy Hook Elementary School attended classes at the neighboring town's Chalk School. AP Photo/Jessica Hill)

Sandy Hook kids getting a fresh start

Dave Collins, Pat Eaton-Robb The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, January 4, 2013 - 1:59pm

MONROE, Conn. — Sarah Caron made her son his favorite pancakes for breakfast and walked the second-grader to the top of the driveway for the school bus.

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A police road block is at the entrance to the new Sandy Hook Elementary School on the first day of classes in Monroe, Conn., Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013. The school, formerly known as Chalk Hill School, was overhauled specially for the students from the Sandy Hook School shooting in Newtown, in the neighboring town of Monroe, Conn. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)

Sandy Hook kids back in class

Dave Collins The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, January 3, 2013 - 10:40am

MONROE, Conn. — Classes resumed Thursday for the students of Sandy Hook Elementary School for the first time since last month’s massacre in Newtown, where a gunman killed 20 first-graders and six educators.

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Donated signs and banners await transport from the Newtown Youth Academy to the Chalk Hill School in Monroe, Conn., on Monday. Parents are bracing to send their children back to school nearly three weeks after the shooting rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown. The school opens today for students from Sandy Hook, where a gunman killed 26 people. (PAT EATON-ROBB/The Associated Press)

Newtown parents thank teachers during tour of new school

Dave Collins, Pat Eaton-Robb The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, January 3, 2013 - 12:45am

MONROE, Conn. — On a tour Wednesday of his daughter’s new school, Vinny Alvarez took a moment to thank her third-grade teacher, who protected the class from a rampaging gunman by locking her classroom door and keeping the children in a corner.

Alvarez was one of many Sandy Hook Elementary School parents expressing gratitude to the teachers during an open house at their school in the neighboring town of Monroe, where their children are resuming classes Thursday for the first time since the Dec. 14 shooting that left 20 students and six educators dead.

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New school for Newtown kids renamed Sandy Hook

Dave Collins The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, January 2, 2013 - 3:25pm

MONROE, Conn. — The children who escaped last month’s shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown will be returning to classes in a neighboring town in a refurbished school now named after their old one, school officials said Wednesday.

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A worker from Connecticut Light & Power inspects a downed power line on Route 5 in South Windsor, Conn., Monday, Oct. 31, 2011. The unseasonably early nor'easter had utility companies struggling to restore electricity to more than 3 million homes and businesses. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)

Power restoration in snowy East could take days

Dave Collins The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, October 31, 2011 - 12:31pm

HARTFORD, Conn. -- Residents across the Northeast faced the prospect of days without electricity or heat Monday after an early-season storm dumped as much as 30 inches of wet, heavy snow that snapped trees and power lines, closed hundreds of schools, and disrupted plans for Halloween trick-or-treating.

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