When Newtown resident Alyce Kallman decided to make a career change after more than two decades operating her own hair salons, she made the jump from good looks to great tastes, opening Cream & Sugar ...

June 28, 1991 With temperatures in the 90s and with sunglasses and beachballs in abundance, it seemed more like a party than the occasion for a solemn farewell to Newtown High School from the Cla...

It's all in the family for the Ashbolt family of Newtown. Dad Mark, mom Francis, son Stephen and daughter Emily all participated in the Rooster Run this past weekend. You may have noticed them race by...

A program of Newtown Parks & Recreation, the Summer Jam Concert Series has returned for its fourth annual summer at Dickinson Memorial Park. This year's seven-week series was off to a strong start on ...

Newtown Labor Day Parade Committee President Beth Caldwell visited C.H. Booth Library on June 13 to present to Library Director Brenda McKinley a framed poster of last year's Labor Day Parade program ...

School is out, and many young adults are on the hunt for some summer spending money and taking their first steps into the workforce. These first jobs may be remembered for years to come and influence ...

June 9 was a nostalgic day at Hawley Elementary School as alumni who attended the school as early as the 1930s returned to 29 Church Hill Road to tour their alma mater. The school's PTA and administra...

Protect Our Pollinators (POP) members added their touch of native plants to a field on the corner of Blackman Road and Main Street on Saturday, June 11. They planted 96 milkweed plants at Blackman Pre...

Carrying a ten-pound live lobster through a crowd and stopping as children drew around him, Sandy Hook Firefighter Rob Sibley displayed "Butter," who was being raffled during the second night of this ...

There's always someone that has to be up to mischief. We hear that several of the signs posted on lawns around town to congratulate NHS graduates were swiped. How disappointing that anyone would snatc...