Despite schools being closed for the day, Newtown High School’s fall drama production will open tonight. The Newtown Bee has been notified that curtain will indeed go up tonight, at 7 pm.

Town and other entities will be affected next week by the Thanksgiving holiday. So will deadlines for your hometown newspaper.

Newtown Boy Scout Troop 270 will be outside Stop & Shop on Sunday, November 18, from 1 to 4 pm, accepting donations for FAITH Food Pantry.

The National Weather Service is reporting an average of 8.2 inches of snow fell across Newtown by 3 am Friday, November 16, the results of a storm that arrived in town about 11 hours earlier.

Over a hundred people came out in support of the Refugee Story Night at Trinity Episcopal Church on November 9. The three-part event began at 5:30 pm and included a dinner prepared by Greenleaf Catering, a screening of the film Soufra, and an hour-long panel discussion.

The Water & Sewer Authority’s (WSA) consulting engineers have been researching the technical aspects and costs involved in increasing the capacity of the Sandy Hook sanitary sewage pumping station to meet the growing wastewater disposal requirements of that area.

Newtown Police Patrol Officer Robert Haas has received the American Automobile Association’s Traffic Safety Hero of The Year Award for his success and continuing efforts to educate and protect the traveling public.

In response to recent criticism leveled at the Water & Sewer Authority over its proposed revisions to the town’s Water Pollution Control Plan, the town’s public works director is explaining why the WSA’s reasoning is sound and its proposed pollution control plan makes sense.

Ambulance calls for Newtown Volunteer Ambulance Corps for the period of November 8-14, 2018.