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Newtown Voted 7th Coolest Town in America
Online voting for Budget Travel Magazine's "Coolest Small Town" ended Friday.
It's official. Newtown is cool. The seventh coolest small town in America, to be precise.
The borough took the seventh spot in the "Coolest Small Town" competition by Budget Travel Magazine. Online voting ended Friday.
With 15,082 votes, Newtown came in ahead of towns in Colorado, Florida, California, and more.
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Close behind Newtown was Cedar Key, Fla., with 14,304 votes. Just ahead of Newtown, in fifth place, was Phoenicia, N.Y. with 15,451 votes. Lewisburg, W. Va. was voted the number one coolest town with 139,118 votes.
Late last year, Newtown was selected as one of 20 finalists in the competition by the magazine's editors. But it was the online popular vote that put the borough in the winning tier.
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Newtown will now be photographed and featured in the September 2011 issue of Budget Travel magazine.
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