After months of studying the possibility of changing school start times, the Board of Education's School Start Time Committee presented a "Revised Option 5" to the school board at its meeting on June ...

A yearlong project for students in Newtown High School's Skills21 class, taught by NHS library/media specialist Liza Zandonella, has earned the class the Sustainability Challenge Award at the recent E...

The School Start Time Committee worked at its meeting on May 30 to finalize a presentation that will share an option for changing school start times in the district at the Board of Education's schedul...

Abigail Marks entered a conference room at Newtown High School on May 24 with a notebook ready for what she thought would be a meeting, but instead she found a room full of her colleagues waiting to s...

Kindness is spreading in Newtown's schools. During the week of May 22, school staff, Ben's Bells staff, and volunteers installed three new murals sharing the message to "be kind" in two Newtown school...

Jessica Powers and her father were among the first guests at Gallery 2017, Middle Gate Elementary School's spring student art show. The two had the opportunity to speak with art teacher Jean Walter, a...

The noise level inside the front lobby and library area of Head O' Meadow Elementary School gradually increased round 5:30 last Monday evening, as students returned to their school for an annual rite ...

The Newtown High School Marching Band & Guard is partnering with Custom Fundraising Solutions (CFS) to hold its second annual Mattress Fundraiser this Saturday, June 3, from 10 am to 5 pm, in the high...

Before they were released at the Catherine Violet Hubbard Animal Sanctuary the week of May 15, orange and black Painted Lady butterflies transformed from caterpillars at each of the elementary schools...

Cate Gosselin was surprised in a Head O' Meadow Elementary School classroom on May 16, with students surrounding her, with the news that she had been chosen as Newtown's Paraeducator of the Year. Supe...