Fire reports for Newtown, Conn. for the period of April 4-10, 2019.

Police reports for Newtown, Conn. for the period of April 2-9, 2019.

Stop & Shop staff members state-wide went on strike as of 1 pm Thursday afternoon, April 11. As customers shoppers approached the Stop & Shop entrance at 228 South Main Street in Newtown on Thursday afternoon, store employees let the public know their complaints.

Daniela Delgado is seeking a good Samaritan to help with car repairs, so that she can keep delivering cakes and smiles to severely ill children.

The Legislative Council was briefed on several items that will have some impact — however incremental — on the 2019-20 budget proposal that was later approved and sent to referendum during a regular meeting April 3.

The maker of the rifle used in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting intends to ask the US Supreme Court to hear its appeal of a Connecticut court ruling.

Labor Day Parade Committee President Nick Kopcik has issued another call for help for the 2019 Labor Day Parade. “It’s simple,” Mr Kopcik said April 1. “If we don’t get help, there will not be a Labor Day Parade this year.”

Police Commission members are reviewing a local man’s concerns about overflow parking, which he says occurs on his street at times when the popular Ferris Acres Creamery, an ice cream stand at 144 Sugar Street (Route 302), becomes crowded with patrons.

Newtown Community Center Director Matthew Ariniello provided The Newtown Bee a recent tour of progress at the new facility ahead of his latest report to the Board of selectmen about proposed programming and membership details.