A section of Walnut Tree Hill Road will be closed for approximately 12 hours between Friday, October 19, and Saturday October 20, due planned work on a bridge replacement project.

Police reports covering Newtown, Conn., for the period of October 11-16, 2018.

In Connecticut Superior Court in Danbury on October 12, a Shelton woman pleaded not guilty to one count of second-degree larceny in connection with her alleged embezzlement of $18,580 in funds while she formerly worked as the business manager at the nonprofit EverWonder Children’s Museum on Pecks Lane in Newtown.

A land development firm, which has a lawsuit pending against the Water & Sewer Authority (WSA), is challenging the WSA’s proposed revisions to its Water Pollution Control Plan, charging that the proposed changes involve “several illegalities.”

The Inland Wetlands Commission (IWC) is pursuing enforcement for various violations of town wetlands regulations against a large plant nursery conducting business at four parcels comprising nearly 100 acres on Huntingtown Road and Meadowbrook Road.

The Registrar’s office at Newtown Municipal Center will be open from 9 am to 8 pm, on Tuesday, October 30, for in-person voter registration.

Following the Board of Selectmen’s unanimous passage of the latest municipal Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) a week earlier (the school district develops its own CIP), the proposed package of projects and estimated costs were presented to the Board of Finance, October 9.

Newtown United Methodist Church and Newtown Parent Connection recently announced a new collaborative effort. The two entities will be hosting a pair of public programs in upcoming weeks, each focusing on the continued epidemic of drug addictions across the country.