The Board of Education closed out its 2020-21 fiscal year with a report recently.

The Board of Selectmen are the first to approve $90,000 to help the Newtown Lions Club build adaptive playground equipment for children with disabilities at Dickinson Park.

Utilizing the Newtown CODE Red system and noting the decision was based on case data, First Selectman Dan Rosenthal has issued an indoor masking mandate in the hopes of curtailing the spread of COVID-19 and its highly aggressive delta variant.

This week’s planned Walk & Talk with First Selectman Rosenthal is being postponed to Friday, September 3.

What's in the works for this week's Newtown Bee? Plenty!

Police reports covering Newtown, Conn., for the period of August 1-16, 2021.

Multiple entities will have their hours affected due to the federal holiday approaching on the first Monday in September. A few Newtown Bee advertising deadlines will be earlier than normal.

Fire calls and their responders in Newtown, Conn., for the period of August 11 to August 17, 2021.

Newtown is seeing rain this afternoon, and it is much lighter than had been predicted even 24 hours ago ahead of Tropical Storm Henri.

Newtown had more gridlock than usual on Thursday, August 19, thanks to a pair of early morning crashes that forced thousands of additional vehicles off Interstate 84 and clogged dozens of local avenues across town for hours..