Newtown Continuing Education's SMART (Summer Music and Art) Camp began its summer classes on July 2 this year. The camp runs for two weeks, in two sessions. This year's second session will run from Ju...

When Sister Colleen Therese Smith first arrived at St Rose of Lima School for the 2014-15 academic year, she asked room after room of students about her new school; students resoundingly told her the ...

Middle Gate Elementary School held its end of the year fourth grade awards assembly on the last day of the 2017-18 school year, June 26. The event highlighted student achievement from the year, and re...

The Board of Education celebrated the Newtown Public Schools 2018-19 Paraeducator of the Year and its 2018-19 Teacher of the Year at its meeting on June 20. Hawley Elementary School paraeducator Linda...

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 for its eighth grade graduating class. ...

Cheers from students and laughter from parents could be heard coming from behind Middle Gate Elementary School in the early evening of June 22 as the school's annual Middle Gate Madness event was unde...

Both Hawley Elementary School and Middle Gate Elementary School held assemblies on June 21 that highlighted C.H. Booth Library's Summer Reading Program for children.More information about the library'...

Reed Intermediate School sixth grade students in Petrice DiVanno and Matt Dalton's cluster and in Amanda Eide and John Sicbaldi's cluster gathered on the last day of the school year, June 26, to celeb...

The Board of Education voted at its special meeting on June 25 to hire Chris Siano of Milford to serve as an assistant principal at Newtown High School, starting July 2. It also approved a revised 201...