Police Chief James Viadero is offering residents some simple advice to help them protect themselves from what is largely a preventable crime — auto theft.

Both its one-term Republican incumbent Will Duff, and repeat Democratic challenger Raghib Allie-Brennan believe they have an obligation to every resident across all four communities they are poised to serve in Hartford for the next two years.

Incumbent Republican 106th District State Representative Mitch Bolinsky and his Democratic challenger, local Board of Education Vice Chairman Rebekah Harriman-Stites offer perspectives on how they plan to address a number of state fiscal challenges that impact everything from local property taxes and Newtown’s education budget to state pensions and revenue shortfalls.

Newtown was represented at the October 11 Dyslexia Legislation Forum in Hartford, which was one of multiple Dyslexia Awareness Month events.

U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) will meet with voters across Connecticut on Saturday at events focused on grassroots advocacy and encouraging people to vote ahead of November’s election.

Former Newtown school district employees have submitted a response to the Office of the Child Advocate’s (OCA) 2014 report on the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School to state senators, with a request to have it attached to the original report.

A section of Walnut Tree Hill Road will be closed for approximately 12 hours between Friday, October 19, and Saturday October 20, due planned work on a bridge replacement project.

Police reports covering Newtown, Conn., for the period of October 11-16, 2018.

In Connecticut Superior Court in Danbury on October 12, a Shelton woman pleaded not guilty to one count of second-degree larceny in connection with her alleged embezzlement of $18,580 in funds while she formerly worked as the business manager at the nonprofit EverWonder Children’s Museum on Pecks Lane in Newtown.

A land development firm, which has a lawsuit pending against the Water & Sewer Authority (WSA), is challenging the WSA’s proposed revisions to its Water Pollution Control Plan, charging that the proposed changes involve “several illegalities.”