A dozen young women crowded around 13-year-old Sabrina Boccuzzi, Tuesday afternoon, July 28, as she pitched a pan of hot marbles into ice water. The clear and g...
A proposal to more than double the size of the Sandy Hook Volunteer Fire & Rescue Company’s fire substation at 249 Berkshire Road (Route 34) is scheduled for pu...
Walking through the Capitol Building, alongside 50 awe-struck and ambitious high school journalists, Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy stopped us outside the Senate...
The afternoon following his 90th birthday celebration, Newtown resident and the acknowledged “Father of Robotics” Joseph F. Engelberger relaxed in his Hattertow...
NOTE: This story has been updated to include details about a volunteer meeting scheduled for August 6.
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Newtown Forest Association has announced i...
The 16 plaintiffs in lawsuits that were filed earlier this year against the estate of Nancy Lanza would receive nearly $94,000 each in a proposed settlement of ...
Caroline Soracin, 98, of Trumbull, the beloved wife of the late William J. Soracin, Sr, died peacefully in her sleep July 31. She was born in Port Chester, N.Y....
Shawn Johnson, 37, of Danbury died July 30. He grew up in Newtown and graduated cum laude from Western Connecticut State University where he studied elementary ...
Joseph F. Michael, 97, of New Milford died June 24 of complications of Alzheimer’s disease. He was born in Danbury, November 1, 1917, to Lebanese immigrants, Fa...
George J. Lazor, 82, of Monroe, beloved husband of Agnes Tavella Lazor, died peacefully August 1 at St Vincent’s Medical Center, surrounded by his loving family...
26 years ago the Newtown education system was excellent, today it is not.
No amount of money will fix that until those responsible for the destruction leave the school system.
Is it not true, that school budgets, by LAW, cannot be reduced year to year, no matter the reason? If it was 1M at 1000 students, next year at 500 students, the budget MUST be 1M?