To help address the current emergency blood shortage, all who donate blood or platelets with the American Red Cross through August 29 will receive a $5 Amazon.com Gift Card via e-mail. Among the upcoming Fairfield County blood drives, one is scheduled in Newtown on Sunday, August 4.

Each year since the locally-based NewArts nonprofit has provided its unique ARC training as a component to cast and crew members involved with annual summer musical projects, program founders have come closer and closer to transforming the training designed to instill grit, resilience, and posttraumatic growth into a curriculum that can be used in non-theatrical and educational settings.

The Avielle Foundation’s 2019 Brainstorm Experience, Season Two, will continue July 24 with Zak Ebrahim dropping in for a talk at Edmond Town Hall.

The Resiliency Center of Newtown (RCN) announces Valerie Le Cann Jones has joined its team.

Veterans and first responders have all answered countless calls for service, and now they are being called to a first-of-its-kind series of health screening events aimed at ensuring their hearts are in tip-top health.

The US Food & Drug Administration has announced that Altaire Pharmaceuticals Inc. on July 10 issued a voluntary recall for select lots of eye care products sold at CVS, including select CVS Health Brand products. 

Paul Epperly of Maplewood at Newtown was among five Maplewood residents across Connecticut awarded the CALA Resident Accomplishment Award for 2019.

Across the nation and here in Fairfield County, middle-aged women are overdosing in record numbers, highlighting the need for more treatment programs and increased awareness about the risks of drug use.

Newtown public safety agencies including its five fire companies, Underwater Search and Rescue, Fire Marshal, Health District, Police and volunteer ambulance service are joining the American Red Cross wishing everyone a great and safe holiday.

A growing number of Connecticut residents appear to be reporting sickness due to consuming Mexican grown papaya that health officials say is tainted with salmonella.