A new addition to Newtown’s outdoor recreation has dogs and owners filling the new Park and Bark dog park. The off-leash facility celebrated its grand opening in May. Following many months of planning...

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The Newtown government beat was a busy one throughout 2014, with developments like the new community center competing with continued recovery and resiliency efforts as the community moved through its ...

The lineup of Newtown’s administrative team changed in 2014. At the start of the year, the Board of Education was conducting a search for a new superintendent of schools. On January 10, five members o...

Gone from the horizon is one of Newtown’s highly visible, but long empty relics at Fairfield Hills. Danbury Hall, once home to psychiatric hospital staff, is gone. By late September, heavy machinery w...

Waterworks heralded the arrival of 2014 at C.H. Booth Library, when sprinkler pipes above the second floor froze and burst on Saturday, January 4, causing the ceiling to collapse in the director’s off...

Newtown welcomed a new ambulance facility to Fairfield Hills in 2014. The building, with its classic design, matches the 1930s-era architecture at the campus, and sits close to duplexes that once serv...

In the same space and in the same spirit of FunSpace, a playground at Dickinson Park that was falling into disrepair and which the town tore down in October 2013, is the new FunSpace II. During that s...

2014 was a positive planning year for the new Sandy Hook Elementary School. Consigli Construction oversaw the demolition of the old Sandy Hook School in the fall of 2013, and by 2014 plans for the new...

In early 2014, the updated Town Plan of Conservation and Development, as well as the updated Fairfield Hills Master Plan, took effect, providing the town with a set of planning guidelines for the comi...