By Wednesday, August 17, gone were the 208,888 square feet of Canaan House that had stood at Fairfield Hills since 1940. On Tuesday, August 16, nearly all of the former state hospital residential buil...

Before the start of school year on August 29, town officials expect to have 24 separate "child safety zones" posted in town at public properties where the presence of registered sex offenders is prohi...

State Department of Transportation (DOT) officials this week described plans to relocate the northern intersection of Pecks Lane and South Main Street (Route 25) to simplify a confusing junction, impr...

With the first day of school approaching, Public Building and Site Commission Chair Robert Mitchell updated the Board of Education at its meeting on Tuesday, August 17, on two building projects overse...

"The Opioid Crisis is real, it is now, and it is here," says Newtown Prevention Council (NPC) Co-Chair and Health District Director Donna Culbert.The Newtown Bee this week as she and her co-chairs, al...

Data collectors working their way through Newtown in groups neighborhood by neighborhood certainly will not be hard to miss.Vision Government Solutions as part of the process leading up to the next to...

After learning that a fugitive from justice from New Jersey was traveling in the area, town police captured the man on the afternoon of Tuesday, August 16.  At about 2:46 pm, police learned th...

A state Department of Transportation (DOT) project to shift the southern end of Edmond Road westward, so that it forms a signalized four-way intersection with Church Hill Road and Commerce Road, has a...

HARTFORD- In an August 11 sentencing memorandum filed on behalf of former Newtown Police Sergeant Steven Santucci, 40, of Waterbury, his lawyer urges that a federal judge issue a prison sentence that ...