Occupation: After graduating from Harding High School in Bridgeport, class of 1948 (we just celebrated our 70th reunion), I worked for Pullman and Comley la...
Students and staff worked throughout Reed Intermediate School on December 7, the school’s annual Day of Service, to complete projects that will support the comm...
Violation of Probation
Police said that after learning that police held a warrant for his arrest, Donald Butler, 59, of Newtown went to the police station ...
The 29th season of Saturday Pasta Dinners and Coffee House events at Newtown United Methodist Church will continue this weekend. Dinner will be served Saturday,...
Flagpole Photographers Camera Club will open the new year with the presentation “It’s Not About Gear; Composition, Perspective, and Presentation.”
Club member C...
The dispatchers at the Newtown Emergency Communications Center at Town Hall South at 3 Main Street report the following fire calls and the responders:
Thurs...
The next meeting of the Genealogy Club of Newtown is scheduled for Wednesday, January 9, in the lower meeting room of C.H. Booth Library, 25 Main Street.
The me...
On the evening of Thursday, January 3, police arrested a local man, charging him with home invasion after he illegally entered an occupied house on the northern...
In July 2018, the Board of Selectmen created a Fairfield Hills Master Plan Review Committee, as required by the current master plan. Since then, the committee h...
In Newtown, individuals have been doing their part to reduce single-use plastics by using reusable water bottles, requesting restaurants eliminate straws, and s...
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?