On Friday, April 26, Team 26 will depart from Newtown for its seventh annual ride to remember those killed on 12/14 and unite fellow Americans and elected leaders at state and federal levels around their mission of commonsense gun laws. This year's ride, which comes with a few changes, will depart from Trinity Episcopal Church following a send-off event scheduled for 8 am.

Union staff of Stop & Shop in Newtown, as well as employees of the supermarket chain across Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island, who had been picketing outside the stores starting early on the afternoon of April 11, were back to work Monday morning, April 22.

Former First Selectman Pat Llodra was recently honored by the Connecticut Association of Schools and the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference (CAS-CIAC) as one of ten inducted into the organization’s Hall of Honor.

Police report that at about 3:25 am on Wednesday, April 17, they responded to a burglary alarm at the Citgo gas station at 151 South Main Street (Route 25) and encountered an attempted theft of an automatic teller machine (ATM) in progress.

State police report they charged a Garner Correctional Institution inmate on April 11 on two separate arrest warrants stemming from incidents that occurred in January and February at the high-security prison at 50 Nunnawauk Road.

Ahead of the April 23 local budget referendum, The Newtown Bee canvassed a number of local elected leaders for input ahead of the annual budget referendum.

First Selectman Dan Rosenthal says by taking a few minutes to participate in the local referendum April 23, qualified residents not only play a key role in the final step of the annual budget development process — more globally, the opportunity to cast a budget vote represents one of the only ways constituents can still influence how the government that affects them most immediately operates (and sets taxation).

To better control the size of residential garages, the Planning & Zoning Commission (P&Z) is proposing some modifications to the zoning regulations on that topic.

Newtown police arrested a Watertown man on the morning of Saturday, April 13, lodging five charges against him following a bizarre incident at a Church Hill Road residence.