By Jake Burg
DANBURY — The Newtown hockey team overcame a 3-1 deficit, coming to life against the Watertown/Pomperaug co-op team and skating away wi...
VNA Sponsoring Free Breakfast
For Women’s Heart Health
The Newtown Visiting Nurse Association will welcome Dr Cary S. Passik, MD, chief of cardioth...
Petitioners Demand Separation From Community Center—
Seniors: We Want Our Own Facility
By Kendra Bobowick
Rustling pages of a petition signed by mor...
The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it’s so rare.
—Daniel Moynihan
Politics is the skill...
Looking For Straight Answers
To the Editor:
I’m a bit confused. The other night at the Commission on Aging meeting the discussion on the need for se...
Small Fire,
Big Response
To the Editor:
I would like to thank the Dodgingtown and Newtown fire companies, and the dispatch service, for their quick response to...
Moving Violations
Police report they stopped motorist Mariel Brown, 23, of 19 Settlers Lane about noon on January 29, after they spotted her driving 51 mil...
Commentary—
Losing Ground On Earmarks
By Ryan Alexander
When the Homeland Security department (DHS) was created in 2002, lawmakers agreed to keep t...
Peter D’Amico’s Vision
To the Editor:
On behalf of the 1,600 players of the Newtown Soccer Club, I would like to thank Peter Dâ€&#x...
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?