Various roads in the center of Newtown will be impacted by the ninth annual Newtown Turkey Trot 5K Run and Walk, scheduled for Thursday, November 22, between the hours of 7:45 and 9 am.

During the November 19 selectmen’s meeting, First Selectman Daniel Rosenthal briefly took the State Department of Transportation to task for its handling of plowing — or lack of it — on state roads during the early season snowstorm on November 15.

Eversource will be using a helicopter equipped with advanced survey gear to create high resolution, three-dimensional images of transmission line rights of way in Connecticut, from Friday, November 23 to Friday, November 30.

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention is advising consumers, restaurants, and retailers not to eat, serve, or sell any romaine lettuce as it investigates an outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 infections linked to romaine.

Governor Dannel Malloy announced that in anticipation of temperatures over the next couple of days that are forecast to be bitter cold with negative wind chill factors at times, he is activating the State’s Severe Cold Weather Protocol beginning on the afternoon of Wednesday, November 21.

Legislative Council members were among the first to see conceptual images and to hear a proposal for an ambitious project that the Sandy Hook Organization for Prosperity envisions for a vacant brownfields site at 7 Glen Road.

Newtown’s newly hired purchasing agent may have only started his term of employment a few days ago, but the position along with hopes of seeing significant taxpayer savings as a result of his expertise, has been on the minds of local officials past and present for nearly a decade.

FAITH Food Pantry is offering a special Monday evening session for residents this week.

The Newtown Fund Depot Day, when gifts are collected and distributed to designated local families, is only a few weeks away.

A look at current and future projects taking place at Fairfield Hills.