Stamped envelopes and packages show up in everybody's mailboxes or on their doorsteps daily, and that is something people may take for granted. After all, mail delivery is kind of like clockwork and i...

Farmhouse Restaurant on South Main Street is hosting its first exhibition of art since opening in December. "Art With A Heart: Sharing is Caring," the latest collection curated by Newtown resident Ros...

May 15, 1992 A group of school and community leaders, school administrators, and the police department are calling for parents and other adults to resist pressures that increase at prom time to a...

NEW MILFORD - Recreating George Orwell's classic novel Animal Farm of 1945 as a play seems a timely undertaking. Adapted by Ian Wooldridge and being directed at TheatreWorks New Milford by Kevin Sosbe...

A Coffee & Conversation event held a few weeks ago for drivers and board members of Newtown Meals On Wheels (MOW) was a "fabulous" event, Janet Hovius said a few days later. A volunteer with the local...

Ornaments that were sold this past holiday season to raise money for the Newtown Lions Club's Sandy Hook Elementary Fund are available again. Julie Allen Bridals and Queen Street Gifts & Treats are bo...

For more than 20 years, on occasion, I've had to board my Norwegian Elkhounds at an area boarding kennel to attend a wedding, a funeral, or the very rare vacation where my husband and I travel togethe...

Past snow-flattened field grass and across a footpath is a swift-moving stream skirting Fairfield Hills. Walking toward an area of slower water and sediment build-up, Pootatuck Watershed Association m...

April 25 was a great day to be a member of The Garden Club of Newtown if your name happened to be Peg. The club was presenting a special three-day standard flower show, "A Party in The Garden,...

Occupation: I am the fire lieutenant for the City of Bridgeport Fire Department. I've been there for 18 years. My dad and uncle were firefighters in the same department, and I knew when I was abou...