RIDGEFIELD — While musicals like Godspell, Wicked and Pippin are familiar to most, the Stephen Schwartz musical The Baker’s Wife is less familiar.
It ran for a ...
CHESTER — In the tradition of A Chorus Line, Gypsy, Kiss Me Kate and others, Goodspeed Opera House’s Norma Terris Theater kicked off its 2024 season with a bran...
The Genealogy Club of Newtown will hold the final meeting of its 2023-24 season on Wednesday, June 12, at 7 pm via Zoom.
It will include a business meeting to e...
The Newtown Rotary Club is winding down its second Newtown Restaurant Raffle (NRRR). The drawing is planned for Tuesday, June 11, at 7:30 pm, at Newtown Communi...
Newtown High School’s girls’ and boys’ track and field teams combined for a trio of first-place efforts in the State Class Championship meets, and added to it i...
June 11, 1999
The Rev Robert E. Weiss, pastor of St Joseph Parish in Shelton since 1990, has been named the new pastor of St Rose of Lima parish in Newtown...
The Board of Education honored retiring staff, CABE student leaders, and the top five percent of the 2024 NHS graduating class in their annual Celebration of Ex...
To the Editor:
The Board of Trustees of the Heritage Preservation Trust of Newtown, Inc — which administers the Newtown Meeting House — wishes to publicly thank...
To the Editor:
I might respectfully suggest to Selectman Capeci that it is not necessarily true that “Newtown must continue to grow” (Letter Hive, May 31). Anot...
Rejecting or approving town budgets has nothing to do with 'smart' growth. These budgets are expected to grow appropriately as cost of services increases.
The status quo is clearly not appealing to voters who rejected the school budget at first and only narrowly approved the town's budget. Smart growth is the name of the game here. That would be growth that respects our past, retains and ensures our vibrancy, and simultaneously widens our tax base.
The Newtown Conservation Coalition is basically a NIMBY snake oil salesman. They jump from cause to cause with the sole goal of making sure nothing changes. It is only a matter of time before they lower their threshold, get to acres, and want an accessory building, not in "their" town. They will bust out a new poster of a bulldozer tramping over a "historic" stone wall and protest in front of any town meeting.