“We have a lot of everything,” Toni Earnshaw, publicity chair for the Friends of the C.H. Booth Library (Friends), said while surrounded by stacks of books in o...
A prompt from the C.H. Booth Library web page says, “We want to hear from you about what you’d like to see happen at the library in the next few years.”
Welcomi...
Paul Epperly of Maplewood at Newtown was among five Maplewood residents across Connecticut awarded the CALA Resident Accomplishment Award for 2019.
The Connecti...
You might say that the correctional career of Amonda Hannah has come full circle.
Twenty-five years ago, in August 1994, in her first post with the state Depart...
It is one thing to try and save the world, but Newtown resident Sean Fitzpatrick decided to start with his own little corner of it.
Mr Fitzpatrick is a classic ...
Kenneth Miller may only be 8 years old, but he is already becoming a strong voice for pollinators across the world.
For his third year, Kenneth has participated...
If the smell of food was not enough to draw students to visit three Reed Intermediate School clusters participating in this year’s June 5 Kindness Carts effort,...
Irwin J. Miller died on Saturday, July 6, 2019, in Norwalk. He was born on February 19, 1926, in Brooklyn, N.Y., to Bertha and Philip Miller. Irwin and his wife...
It has been years since Newtown sought a review and upgraded municipal bond rating from Moody’s Investors Service.
The main reason for that, according to Town F...
Julie Ann (Harpe) Pierce, of Newtown, age 56, was called home to God on July 2, 2019. She passed peacefully following a long illness. Julie was a warm, friendly...
Lamont Directs Flags To Half-Staff Friday In Honor Of Former US Senator Joseph LiebermanGovernor Ned Lamont is directing US and state flags in Connecticut to be lowered to half-staff from sunrise to sunset tomorrow as a mark of solemn respect for the memory and longstanding service of former US Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, who died Wednesday. HARTFORD — Governor Ned Lamont today announced that as a mark of solemn respect for the memory and longstanding service of former US Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, who died Wednesday, March 27, he is directing US and state flags in Connecticut lowered to half-staff from sunrise to sunset on the day of the former senator’s funeral, which has been scheduled for Friday, March 29.Accordingly, since no flag should fly higher than the US flag, all other flags, including state, municipal, corporate, or otherwise, should also be lowered during this same duration of time.The funeral service will be held at Congregation Agudath Sholom in Stamford.Lieberman, who nearly won the vice presidency on the Democratic ticket with Al Gore in the disputed 2000 election and who almost became Republican John McCain’s running mate eight years later, died in New York City on Wednesday due to complications from a fall, according to a statement issued by his family. He was 82.Lieberman and his wife, Hadassah, have four children.