Police Chief James Viadero last week updated the Board of Selectmen about ongoing planning toward the construction of a new police station to replace the existing station at 3 Main Street (Route 25). ...

The Board of Selectmen has tentatively approved issuing a license that would allow a police dog training group to use the vacant former Newtown Hook & Ladder firehouse at 45 Main Street for the traini...

What was once the piano room at Newtown Senior Center is now transformed into a grand art gallery to showcase Shirley Kopnicky's "One Woman Show," an exhibition of original art by the Nunnawauk Meadow...

"We're getting two for the price of one!" That was the sentiment from Town Director of Planning George Benson after pointing out that remediation crews were outside the deteriorating Woodbury Hall wai...

It is safe to say that all four Republican members of Newtown's state legislative delegation were pinching themselves, figuratively if not literally, as Democratic colleagues crossed the aisle in both...

The phrase "it is not working" was repeated multiple times by members of the public at the September 19 Board of Education meeting in response to the reconfigured transportation system. School board m...

Town police are making the transition to new uniforms, changing their patrol officers' garb from gray shirts and black pants to garments that are dark blue. The changeover is now occurring, with all u...

Newtown Director of Emergency Communications Maureen Will has been advised by the provider of phone and Internet services that some local customers may suffer temporary outages during the earl...

The Sandy Hook Permanent Memorial Commission (SHPMC) met September 14, at Newtown Municipal Center, and approved the permanent memorial's submission guidelines for designers. After months of construct...

The Sandy Hook Permanent Memorial Commission (SHPMC), on behalf of the Board of Selectmen of the Town of Newtown, is inviting design submissions for a permanent memorial to honor and remember the 26 v...