Newtown's senior population is rapidly growing, with many choosing to remain in their homes or local independent housing facilities. Without family members, nurses, or aides living with them, a number...

Very often, the public's contact with police officers occurs during emergencies or urgent situations. To provide a more relaxed setting for the public to interact with local police officers, Newtown P...

Due to the paving work being done on the parking lot at Treadwell Memorial Park on Philo Curtis Road, residents and other guests are being asked to plan to park in the property's new alternate parking...

Democratic First Selectman candidate Dan Rosenthal would not go as far as calling the 12 to 15 cents he says Newtown residents get back for every dollar of income tax sent to Hartford obscene. But dur...

From its earliest days as conceptual drawings, until a few days ago when Newtown's Public Building and Site Commission (PBSC) officially closed out the Sandy Hook Elementary School building project, t...

Residents attending an August 9 Borough Zoning Commission (BZC) public hearing on Church Hill Village, a 72-bed assisted-living complex proposed for a 3.97-acre site at 37 Church Hill Road (US Route 6...

Monroe Police Officer Andrew Wall, a 21-year resident of Sandy Hook, has filed a lawsuit against the town of Monroe "and its employees" in his effort to return to work after nearly two years of battli...

Newtown is scheduled to be the second to last stop as US Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) completes his second "Walk Across Connecticut," taking to the state's streets and dirt roads to listen t...

Following their review of modified plans for a retail center planned for 73-75 Church Hill Road (US Route 6), Planning and Zoning Commission (P&Z) members have unanimously approved those revisions for...

By the afternoon of August 3, nearly all of the new seats for the Newtown High School auditorium were in place. The first phase of the project is expected to be completed around August 21 or 22, and t...