Chris Gardner, Newtown’s “Keeper of the Flag,” was at the Main Street flagpole recently, watching while Hook & Ladder firefighters changed out the flag that had...
Newtown Nonprofit Council (NNC) saw about a dozen representatives from local organizations at its Tuesday, February 21 hybrid meeting. Those attending in person...
March 21, 1938 to February 26, 2023
Michael B. Csanadi, Jr, of Newtown, passed away unexpectedly at Danbury Hospital on February 26, 2023, at the age of 84 year...
Occupation: I am a retired army chaplain and I am finishing my doctorate of ministry at Erskine Theological Seminary.
Family: I have a wife, Gail, and...
Participants munched on salads and took notes during the Lunch and Learn on February 13 as part of the Community Center’s “Healthy Heart Month” series.
The lunc...
In loving memory of our mother, Mary “Peggy” Thibdeau, who passed away on February 24, 2023, after a short but devastating battle with a very aggressive brain c...
Leonard “Lenny” or “Len” Watt Manz, 84, of Homosassa, Florida, passed away on February 17, 2023, at home after a long battle with cancer. He was born in Bridgep...
Having a longstanding media relationship with a number of agencies that provide assistance to residents facing financial challenges compromising their ability t...
To the Editor:
Two important issues that affect Newtown and area towns are topics of draft legislation in this year’s General Assembly.
The first is SB122, An A...
To the Editor:
I would like to thank everyone who takes the initiative to pick up trash along our town’s roadways, even though the trash is not your own. Road t...
Biden had no choice but to resign after that debate performance he gave...the world saw what most people already knew and many denied; that he was in extreme mental decline.
The powers that be in the Democrat Party (Obama, Clintons, Pelosi, Soros et al) made him drop out...the day before he was screaming that he was all in to the finish line.
What changed over night?...The Democrats realized that he was almost certain to lose and they will do ANYTHING to stay in power, so he was forced to drop out..There was nothing noble, heroic of patriotic about it...he was coerced into dropping out.
I think the common wisdom is that it was playing dirty ball to deny Obama from the nominating process. As a result we diminished women/family choice and lost support for the Supreme Court. In the end I think it hurt the Republican Party.