During two budget workshop meetings, January 11 and January 23, the Board of Education reviewed the remaining proposed budgets within the 2017-18 Superintendent's Requested Operational Budget Plan.Sup...

This report was updated at 4:30 pm on January 29 to correct the date of an East Hartford plane crash that affected Newtown municipal internet services. During a special budget session January 23,...

Democrat Don Mitchell, who has served on the Planning and Zoning Commission (P&Z) for the past four years, has been elected as chairman of that agency, which has five regular members and three alterna...

Members of the Sandy Hook Permanent Memorial Commission (SHPMC) and its professional Advisory Panel gathered in the Newtown High School Lecture Hall on the evenings of January 11 and 18 to continue Ph...

Area residents and business people will have an opportunity to learn how a municipal law enforcement agency functions, as the Newtown Police Department again offers its free informational program know...

This story has been updated to include names and contact information inadvertently omitted in an earlier post. State Representatives Mitch Bolinsky, Will Duff, and JP Sredzinski, and Sena...

The public is invited to learn about the Freedom of Information Act during a free workshop Tuesday, February 13, at 7 pm, in the Council Chambers of Newtown Municipal Center, 3 Primrose Street.ct.gov/...

The dispatchers at the Newtown Emergency Communications Center at Town Hall South, 3 Main Street, report the following fire calls and the responders:Thursday, January 11: 7:40 am, burning odor indoors...

Police report they arrested an 18-year-old man on multiple criminal charges late on the night of Monday, January 22, following several local incidents. Police received a report about 8:09 pm informing...

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