Newtown High School senior Elle Sauli is hoping her latest achievement, earning the title of Miss Connecticut Teen USA 2018, will help her spread the "Lunch Love" program she started this year in Newt...

Occupation: I teach first grade full-time in Easton and have been teaching for nine years. When I was on maternity leave I started doing Beautycounter as a second job. It was something that I coul...

The best way to avoid cold feet during winter's worst weather is to find the right footwear, and The Athlete's Source in Bethel is helping customers start the year off on the right foot. The Athlete's...

Betty Baker - longtime residents may remember her as Betty Smith - celebrated her 90th birthday on January 13, in Florida. Betty was the town clerk in Newtown for many, many years. We send our belated...

Tanya DeJesus's epidural did not kick in on January 3, so she felt every moment of her younger son's birth. "It was the longest three minutes of my life," she said this week. Laughing, she called the ...

January 22, 1993 THE HOUSATONIC EAGLES, STILL FLYING HIGH: Bald eagles from the north have returned to the area, feeding on fish buoyed toward the surface of the Housatonic River by upswelling cu...

Newtown Boy Scout Devon Pope, of Troop 770, stands beside an American flag retirement box he donated to VFW Post 308, January 14. He worked alongside a team of Troop 770 Boy Scouts to construct the pa...

Some of Newtown's intermediate and middle school students have big dreams. Nearly two dozen children participated on Monday, January 15, in a service project hosted by Ben's Lighthouse. Inspired by th...

Based on his keynote comments at the Newtown Chamber of Commerce Annual Meeting January 9, recently elected First Selectman Dan Rosenthal is ready to begin delivering on campaign commitments he made t...

After I read The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo, I began to declutter around the house category by category. Clothes were first. I was instructed to pile all my clothes, by subcatego...