In the wake of the shootings in Orlando on June 12, the Newtown Center of Support and Wellness (CWS) reminds residents that trauma team members are available Monday daily through Friday, 8:30 am to 4:...

Instead of accepting or rejecting a package of recommendations, local selectmen last week publicly criticized the local Board of Ethics for its process and maintaining an assumption of guilt w...

Newtown Congregational Church will host an interfaith vigil tonight to honor those who were killed during the early morning hours of Sunday, June 12, at a nightclub in Orlando, Fla. The public is invi...

In what is becoming a regular occurrence, President Barack Obama has ordered that American flags be lowered for the victims of a mass shooting incident on United States soil. On Sunday, June 12, the p...

Despite an impending forecast of rain, the sky was clear and the weather fair as the 2016 graduating class of Newtown High School (NHS) lined up outside Western Connecticut State University's O'Neill ...

Newtown responders and officials who have seen the devastation resulting from Connecticut's opioid epidemic are hailing newly enacted legislation that limits prescription quantities on powerful painki...

The Board of Education voted at its meeting on Tuesday, June 7, to amend its 2016-17 spending plan to meet the amount passed by voters at referendum on April 26.The full list of changes is ava...

The Fairfield Hills landscape is poised to change again as crews get ready to raze Canaan House - a 208,888-square-foot building across from the Newtown Municipal Center. Already on the job since late...

Superintendent of Schools Joseph V. Erardi, Jr, and members of the Board of Education's Future Forecast Committee hosted a community forum on Monday, June 6, to hear input from attendees.availableÃ&#x...

Church Hill at Edmond Collision Police report a two-vehicle collision at the intersection of Church Hill Road and Edmond Road during the evening rush, about 5:30 pm, on May 25. Motorist Christina...