July 26, 1991 Tempers escalated with temperatures this week, when a longstanding lack of adequate air conditioning at Fairfield Hills Hospital was criticized and a protest march held by the Allia...

July 12, 1991 This is the first time since 1982 that the town has been so far into the fiscal year without an approved budget. In that year, residents didn't adopt a budget until July 28. But Fir...

SHERMAN - The Sherman Players current production of Molière's Tartuffe is a hoot. In their 17th Century finery, an excellent cast - under the superb direction of Paul J. Tines - puts on a show...

He had to wait nearly 50 years, but "Stretch" Forbell finally got his wish. Working for the telephone company, back in the 1960s, Stretch was on the job at The Newtown Bee. Among the numerous antiques...

Usually the only wild animals at C.H. Booth Library are found on the pages of books, but on July 15, frogs, turtles, a hedgehog, and more made their way through the library doors for the Athletes of t...

NEW MILFORD - TheatreWorks New Milford's summer fare is a musical rendition of a slice of the lives of the four characters who seemingly create the work on the spot. It is funny, charming and unusual....

The phenomenon that is Pokémon Go, a gaming app with animated creatures, was released in the US on July 6. It has since been released in over 30 countries around the world including Australia, New Zea...

Tippy Toes, a black schipperke-beagle mix with two white front toes, was born in 1972 during the Fourth of July festivities at Sweetbrier Farm in Easton. A litter of two boys and two girls arrived tha...

When Newtown couple Ryan Knapp and Brittany Batterton decided to visit Rwanda in Africa, they never expected a one-on-one encounter with a family of gorillas. Nor did they have any idea how close that...