Members of FUN (Families United in Newtown) gathered at Dickinson Memorial Park recently for the group’s final meeting of the 2014-15 school year. The event was held as a celebration of the end of the...

To kick off its annual Summer Reading program, C.H. Booth Library hired magician Scott Jameson to perform for children and their parents on Tuesday, June 23. “We’ve had him before…he’s wonderful, he’s...

The start of summer camp for local children in the Newtown Parks & Recreation day camps at Dickinson Memorial Park and Treadwell Park was on June 22, the day after summer officially began. Sara Edgert...

Newtown Parks & Recreation has a lineup of camps, programs, and activities set for this summer, with some already underway. The camp options are available to various age groups. The day camp offered a...

A poster, created by two Newtown High School graphics students, began promoting a new slogan for the Newtown Safe Schools Anonymous Tip Line near the end of the 2014-15 school year. The poster reads, ...

As part of its continuing celebration to commemorate its 25th anniversary year, Housatonic Valley Waldorf School hosted a St John’s Day Festival at its 1 Jacklin Road location on Saturday, June 13. Th...

The Middle Gate Elementary School hosted its annual PTA-sponsored laser light show for the students to celebrate the end of the school year on Tuesday, June 16. The show was put on by Prismatic Magic,...

Reed Intermediate School students gathered at the Victory Garden in Fairfield Hills on Friday, June 12, to work as a group on two rows in the garden. Both Reed and Sandy Hook Elementary School have tw...

Sandy Hook Elementary School students ventured with parents and Math/Science Specialist Kris Feda to the Victory Garden in Fairfield Hills on Wednesday, June 3, to plant and work on rows overseen by t...