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Newtown residents grateful for light media coverage Dec. 14

  • By Eileen Byrnes
  • December 19, 2013
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BY EILEEN BYRNES / Ten days before Christmas Eve and on the one-year anniversary of the slaughter in two first-grade classrooms, Newtown became a sort of Who-ville. The media – viewed by a most people here in the once- sleepy town as an evil, callous Grinch – showed that, perhaps, it does have a heart after all.

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