Pointing toward a book-filled storage room, Toni Earnshaw said, "When I first started volunteering, there were stacks of puzzles," and she recalls thinking skeptically, "Oh yeah, all the pieces are th...

During a track and field meet at Shelton High School this past spring season, some of the Newtown High Unified Sports athletes and partners on the Gold Rush squad hurried across the turf field to the ...

Children played on the playgrounds, passed a ball around, or splashed down a water slide on June 30 as the first week of Newtown Parks and Recreation summer day camps this summer came to a close.newto...

July 10, 1992 One thing that keeps Newtown rural is its dirt roads, Washbrook Road residents say. They want to see their road remain unpaved despite a subdivision developer's pending road work ag...

Children with visual impairments were Soaring with the Eagles recently during a LOF Adaptive annual Soaring with the Eagles water sports event designed for blind and visually impaired children. The Sa...

For the past ten years, Sandy Hook resident Ricky Grasso has been dedicating his life to gaining as much experience as possible in the competitive world of drum corps. After traveling all over the cou...

Summer has officially begun. The kids are out of school, the days are longer, and the weather is warmer. This combination makes summer the perfect time to get out and explore. Here are suggestions for...

Newtown Boy Scout Troop 370 celebrated its newest Eagle Scout on June 24, when Matt Tassiello was honored during his Court of Honor. The special event was conducted at Dickinson Memorial Park, and amo...

Shimmering with bees' movements from bloom to bloom on Sunday, June 25, was a tidy lavender garden splashed throughout with orange poppy petals. The perennials are nestled in a patch behind 27 Main St...

Are they special and collectible? Grapefruit, works and drawings by Yoko Ono, introduction by John Lennon, Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum, The Complete Cartoons Of The New Yorker, with an inscription, ar...