Newtown Historical Society will host a program about the establishment of the National Park Service parks and its history on Monday, September 9.

LRM, a local landscape and construction firm is banking on the goodwill of customers needing a dumpster to help a local family who lost a loved one to the insidious disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

Newtown Hikers has announced its Fall 2019 schedule.

A Danbury man and a Newtown woman both went to the police station about 12:10 am on September 6, and were each arrested on charges of first-degree larceny and third-degree burglary in connection with their alleged theft of approximately $50,000 worth of art objects.

Park and Bark will be closed Monday for maintenance.

The Resiliency Center of Newtown (RCN) will host an open house on Monday, September 23.

Security cameras at Newtown’s public schools were replaced over the summer, and the new system began recording 24 hours a day, every day, ahead of the school year’s start.

In a unanimous decision, the Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA) has conditionally approved a land developer’s request for a zoning variance that would allow vehicles to park closer to Berkshire Road (Route 34) than would normally be allowed, in connection with that developer’s proposal to construct a 10,150-square-foot retail center there, near Exit 11 of Interstate 84.

After spotting a motorist traveling the wrong way on an Interstate 84 ramp at the Exit 10 interchange at about 9 pm on September 3, police stopped the person who was driving the 2005 Infiniti auto, and as they approached the vehicle smelled a strong odor of marijuana emanating from it, police said.

With little discussion during a brief meeting September 3, the Board of Selectmen rejected a right of first refusal to purchase a small interior parcel of state land adjacent to a proposed commercial development on Berkshire Road.