The town has been awarded a state grant to help it improve the condition of some tilted and fallen tombstones at Sandy Hook Cemetery at 7 Riverside Road.

FAITH Food Pantry is not a ministry of St Rose of Lima Church. The nonecumenical pantry is open to everyone in town, not just St Rose parishioners. Those were two of the points Lee Paulsen and Bill Manfredonia made to members of Newtown Interfaith Council during the council’s March 6 meeting.

Although several Hawleyville residents expressed public safety concerns about allowing a proposed gas station/convenience store to operate at 13 Hawleyville Road (State Route 25), Zoning Board of Appeals members unanimously endorsed having such a facility at the 3.7-acre site within the Hawleyville Center Design District zone.

After reviewing design plans for the project, Planning and Zoning Commission (P&Z) members have approved a residential subdivision for land at 77 Bennetts Bridge Road, near that street’s intersection with Lakeview Terrace and Gelding Hill Road.

Newtown's horrific 12/14 tragedy inspired Melissa Glaser, MS LPC, the former coordinator of Newtown’s Newtown Recovery and Resiliency Team (NRRT) to pen what could be the first-ever response handbook for newly affected communities to reach for when or if they become involved in a mass casualty tragedy.

The Catherine Violet Hubbard Animal Sanctuary invites local residents to learn about its Senior Paw Project at a special Lunch and Learn on Friday, March 29. The project addresses the critical and growing needs of aging Americans who are unable to keep or care for their beloved dogs or cats.

Police on Wednesday, March 13, arrested two Shelton men in connection with their alleged theft of scrap copper piping from the vacant but secured Cochran House, a decaying multistory 188,000-square-foot building at the town-owned Fairfield Hills complex, a former state psychiatric hospital.

Labor Day Parade Committee President Nick Kopcik has issued a call for help for the 2019 Labor Day Parade. “The more people who show up, the less work there is for everyone,” Mr Kopcik said recently.

Newtown Police Chief James Viadero recently attended a Bridgeport conference at which six other municipal police chiefs and the state’s Commissioner of the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection (DESPP) discussed possible solutions to an ongoing rash of juvenile crime, especially auto theft.

A town attorney is challenging a Seymour man’s complaint to the state Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities that Newtown police discriminated against the man and is calling for the CHRO to dismiss the man’s complaint.