C.H. Booth Library has scheduled a series of listening sessions in July with the hope that residents and patrons will help staff gather community feedback about the next few years.

Pools fill at the new Newtown Community and Senior Center.

The Newtown Forest Association welcomes a new board member, announces wine tasting ticket sales.

During the annual company meeting on Monday, June 3, 2019, Sandy Hook Volunteer Fire & Rescue Company members voted on the company’s firefighting and administrative officer positions for the period of July 1, 2019, through June 30, 2020.

Newtown Congregational Church will host a presentation by a historian, attorney and human rights activist this weekend. Victor Aronow will present “200 Years of Immigration (in 45 minutes” at 11:30 am Sunday, June 30.

Calls for Newtown Volunteer Ambulance Corps for the period of June 20-26, 2019.

Fire reports for Newtown, Conn. for the period of June 20-26, 2019.

Police reports for Newtown, Conn. for the period of June 8-25, 2019.

Calling news about Newtown’s Hubbell plant closing “a kick in the gut” and a “wake-up call” to state officials, members of Newtown’s legislative delegation, along with First Selectman Dan Rosenthal, expressed concern after the company announced June 25 it was relocating its local manufacturing operations on Prospect Drive to Puerto Rico.

The Design Advisory Board (DAB) is reviewing plans for the town’s new $15.1-million police station, a project that will involve expanding and modifying an existing vacant office building at 191 South Main Street to replace the police department’s outdated facility in Town Hall South at 3 Main Street.