Driven primarily by wage and benefit increases along with a substantial commitment to improving local roads, a 2016-17 municipal budget requesting $41,190,942 — a $1.05 million (2.6 percent) increase ...

New listings will be added as they are received. The winter storm that has been moving north for the past few days arrived in Newtown around 7 am Saturday morning. A Winter Storm Watch that had b...

An ad hoc committee seated last year by the Board of Selectmen to work on developing long-term strategic plans for maintaining and improving town roads presented its initial findings and recommendatio...

Due to a conflict with his legislative schedule in Hartford, Representative Mitch Bolinsky (R-106th) has had to cancel his Seniors’ Legislative Update scheduled for Friday, January 29, at Newtown Seni...

The Legislative Council unanimously approved a four-year teacher contract during a regular meeting January 20 that will have a total impact of just under $4 million through the 2019 fiscal year. At th...

UPDATED (Friday, January 22, 2016; 4:42 pm) The first big snow of the new year may arrive this weekend. Meteorologists have been watching a storm form all week, and now it looks as if southern Ne...

The Legislative Council unanimously approved a four-year teacher contract during a regular meeting January 20 that will have a total impact of just under $4 million through the 2019 fiscal year. At th...

The Jesse Lewis Choose Love Movement, a nonprofit organization created in honor of one of the first grade victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook tragedy, announced Tuesday, January 19, it has been named a rec...