Newtown Congregational Church will host a presentation by a historian, attorney and human rights activist this weekend. Victor Aronow will present “200 Years of Immigration (in 45 minutes” at 11:30 am Sunday, June 30.

Calls for Newtown Volunteer Ambulance Corps for the period of June 20-26, 2019.

Fire reports for Newtown, Conn. for the period of June 20-26, 2019.

Police reports for Newtown, Conn. for the period of June 8-25, 2019.

Calling news about Newtown’s Hubbell plant closing “a kick in the gut” and a “wake-up call” to state officials, members of Newtown’s legislative delegation, along with First Selectman Dan Rosenthal, expressed concern after the company announced June 25 it was relocating its local manufacturing operations on Prospect Drive to Puerto Rico.

The Design Advisory Board (DAB) is reviewing plans for the town’s new $15.1-million police station, a project that will involve expanding and modifying an existing vacant office building at 191 South Main Street to replace the police department’s outdated facility in Town Hall South at 3 Main Street.

The scope of an urgent public works project to replace a collapsed large metallic culvert that passes beneath Mile Hill Road has expanded substantially, with the work required to fix the high-priority problem being more extensive than was initially thought.

Two Sandy Hook residents were killed in a single vehicle crash early Sunday morning, June 23. Elliot Gregory and Philip Zuvanich died after the Jeep Cherokee they were traveling in crashed into the woods off Berkshire Road at its intersection with Jordan Hill Road.

Calls for Newtown Volunteer Ambulance Corps for the period of June 13-20, 2019.

One local police responder termed the situation “the miracle on Cherry Street” after a 17-year-old male driver lost control of the Toyota Camry he was operating, crossed a front lawn, and then drove into a private home shortly after 9 am Friday, June 21.