The 25th annual Citizen Police Academy will be offered to the general public by Newtown Police Department starting on March 24. Deadline to register is March 13.

Members of the Water & Sewer Authority (WSA) have held a brief public hearing on some proposed changes to the town’s Water Pollution Control Plan.

Ambulance calls in Newtown, Conn., for the period of February 14-21, 2019.

The schools superintendent is launching a new website describing a “systemic vision for teaching and learning,” as described at the Board of Education’s meeting on February 19.

A combined air conditioning project for Hawley Elementary School’s multipurpose room and Newtown Middle School’s cafeteria gained momentum on February 19, when the Board of Education approved hiring a contractor for the project.

BRIDGEPORT (AP)— Infowars host Alex Jones, who is being sued for calling the Sandy Hook School shooting a hoax, may face a Waterbury jury.

Local officials who have been waiting for newly elected Governor Ned Lamont’s first budget proposal are drilling into the massive document because, as the saying goes, “the devil is in the details.”

Taxpayers speaking at a February 14 Board of Finance public hearing on the $120.3 million overall budget proposed for 2019-20 focused their comments on the education side of the spending plan, which at $78,104,410 represents 64.9 percent of the spending proposal.

Police reports for Newtown, Conn. for the period of February 7-19, 2019.

Fire reports for Newtown, Conn. for the period of February 14-20, 2019.