The scope of an urgent public works project to replace a collapsed large metallic culvert that passes beneath Mile Hill Road has expanded substantially, with the work required to fix the high-priority problem being more extensive than was initially thought.

Two Sandy Hook residents were killed in a single vehicle crash early Sunday morning, June 23. Elliot Gregory and Philip Zuvanich died after the Jeep Cherokee they were traveling in crashed into the woods off Berkshire Road at its intersection with Jordan Hill Road.

Calls for Newtown Volunteer Ambulance Corps for the period of June 13-20, 2019.

One local police responder termed the situation “the miracle on Cherry Street” after a 17-year-old male driver lost control of the Toyota Camry he was operating, crossed a front lawn, and then drove into a private home shortly after 9 am Friday, June 21.

Following a June 13 public hearing and discussion by Water & Sewer Authority (WSA) members, the WSA unanimously approved extending municipal sanitary sewer service to a 29-unit condominium complex long-planned for a 29-acre site at 41, 43, 45, and 47 Mt Pleasant Road.

NEAT makes bins of reusable bags available to residents.

The town has enlisted the services of a traffic engineering firm to help it devise plans to resolve a chronic motorist speeding problem on Toddy Hill Road, a north-south town road that links Sandy Hook to Botsford. Toddy Hill Road’s name becomes Botsford Hill Road south of its intersection with Button Shop Road.

About two dozen residents showed up for a 90-minute 'Pizza & Politics' gathering with Newtown's State Rep Mitch Bolinsky, and to get his input on various pieces of state government business.

A first of its kind "Need Help?" brochure is being mailed to each resident with key contact information about local, trusted resources for any issue involving medical needs, mental health, domestic violence, or alcohol and drug abuse.