After months of deliberation, the Sandy Hook Permanent Memorial Commission (SHPMC) narrowed down the memorial design submissions to three contenders during its meeting on April 10. Newly elected SHPMC...

May 14, 1993 Students who attend the senior prom this year will be asked to take a breathalyzer test - the administration's move to take a firm stand against drinking at school functions. The dec...

How does someone write a memoir about an event for which they have no memory? That is the question posed by Amy Nawrocki in the early pages of The Comet's Tale: A Memoir of No Memory. Nawrocki was a 1...

Newtown's Ninth Annual Strutt Your Mutt Dog Walk andamp; Fair will be held next Saturday, May 19, rain or shine, at the Fairfield Hills Campus at Trades Lane and Keating Farms Road. This cool event, f...

Sabrina Boccuzzi unveiled the library's new Seed Bank on May 5 to a roomful of supporters. She created the Seed Bank for her Girl Scout Gold Award project. The grand opening of the Seed Bank at C.H. B...

In Connecticut, nearly 16 of every 100 residents are over the age of 65. And while 98 percent of those surveyed in a recent Wells Fargo study believe that older people are susceptible to scams and exp...

Newtown High School's cafetorium was full of dancing, food, and fun the evening of May 4, when Newtown Parks & Recreation hosted its Senior Citizen Prom. This year's theme was "Fly Me To The Moon," an...

Occupation: After working in the Sandy Hook School library for six years, last summer I was ready for a change, so I joined the staff of WMNR Fine Arts Radio in Monroe, where I'd freelanced for ye...

If you thought that scientist talking about seaweed on a recent CBS 60 Minutes segment looked vaguely familiar, there's a good chance you have stood beside him or exchanged ple...

The Spay and Neuter Association of Newtown will present a fundraising tag sale Saturday, May 12, from 9 am until 3 pm, at the residence located at 46 Main Street (opposite Newtown Savings Bank).[navig...