As “monster” Hurricane Florence swirled and gathered strength off the Carolinas September 12, agencies from the local Newtown Health District to the Federal Emergency Management Agency were communicating a uniform message: be prepared.

A regulatory proposal by the Planning and Zoning Commission (P&Z) to allow drive-through window service at eateries at shopping centers has drawn opposition from residents speaking at a P&Z public hearing.

A long summer of ran has not hampered progress of Newtown's new Community Center and Senior Center construction in Fairfield Hills.

Fire calls and their responders for the period of September 6-12, 2018, as reported by the dispatchers at Newtown Emergency Communications Center.

Calls covered by Newtown Volunteer Ambulance Corps for the period of September 6-13, 2018, as reported by the dispatchers at Newtown Emergency Communications Center.

Police reports covering Newtown, Conn., for the period of September 5-9, 2018.

In a split vote on September 6 , the Planning and Zoning Commission approved new zoning regulations that would allow developers to apply for up to two gas station/convenience store complexes in the Hawleyville Center Design District zone (HCDD), along Hawleyville Road (Route 25), near I-84 Exit 9.

First Selectman Dan Rosenthal and Newtown resident Monte Frank are expressing dismay over news that Kyle Lyddy, former Sandy Hook Permanent Memorial Commission chairman and the chairman of the Oz Griebel-Monte Frank gubernatorial campaign, was arrested Tuesday, September 11.

US and State flags will fly at half-staff on Tuesday, September 11, in remembrance of those who lost their lives in the 2001 terrorist attacks.