The recently released HBO movie Fahrenheit 451, based on the book by the late Ray Bradbury, depicts a future in which books are banned. Not only are they banned...
Fairfield Hills DUI
Police report that they observed a motorist make a motor vehicle violation, after which they stopped the vehicle in question to investi...
Ann Walsh Bove, 93, of Bridgeport, died July 2. She was born in Huntington, August 12, 1924, and was the daughter of John Walsh and Ann Crinock Walsh.
Her two s...
To kickoff the C.H. Booth Library's annual summer reading program, magician Scott Jameson entertained children ages 4 and up with an hour of magic, music, and j...
Martha Wright, 78, of Newtown, died June 25, at Yale Hospital, following a decade-long fight with scleroderma induced pulmonary arterial hypertension. She was b...
July 9, 1993
Treadwell Pool Loses Its Race With The Heat. Once Treadwell pool is open - possible July 9 - the Parks and Recreation Department intends to ex...
Ninety-seven year old Newtown resident Dorothea LaBelle clearly recalls her desire to defeat the Germans as a young woman, and how she rushed to enlist in the U...
Mariam Azeez, a youth and member of the Al Hedaya Islamic Center, has written a book with Terry Murphy and Deborah Clarke about the power of kindness and compas...
Fraser Woods Montessori School held a kindergarten graduation ceremony at the school on June 7, and it held a ceremony that evening at the Newtown Meeting House...
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?