Town Historian Dan Cruson's Edmond Town Hall office is becoming a repository for Newtown ephemera discovered all over the country and returned to its hometown, said the local historian. Some of it has...

In 1892, when brothers Allison P. Smith and Arthur J. Smith took ownership of The Newtown Bee, it began four decades of a working relationship that benefited the people of Newtown. Arthur Smith served...

Elizabeth Fortier of Boston sat on the curb on Friday, April 22, outside NYA Sport & Fitness Center with a group of runners that had started out in Boston days earlier, and were heading to San Francis...

In honor of National Poetry Month, which has been celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, Newtown Poet Laureate Lisa Schwartz is sharing some of her favorite works by local poets.homegrown writer ...

The Edmond Town Hall Board of Managers held its fourth "Visioning Session," Tuesday morning, April 19, with the goal of developing a business plan for the historic building at 45 Main Street. Board Ch...

HARTFORD - When the whirling, dipping, harmonica honking dervish that is Peter Wolf steps onto the stage fronting the legendary J Geils Band, fans know exactly what they're in for, which is what makes...

I learned this week about two phone apps, "Weather Pup" and "Weather Kitty." Both apps share the weather and time based on the user's location, but they also share photos of animals responding to that...

Occupation: I am opening a chocolate shop, Castle Hill Chocolate, hopefully in time for Mother's Day, next to Dunkin' Donuts. So I'm Newtown's newest "chocolatier." I also co-own a vintage bridal ...

The new exhibition in the Olga Knoepke Memorial Meeting Room at C.H. Booth Library quietly went on view Monday afternoon. Artist and Newtown resident Joe Paccia spent a few hours at the library, hangi...

May 3, 1991 On April 28 fire destroyed an old 2,900-square-foot barn on the Currituck Road farm belonging to Andy Sedor. Damage estimated at $100,000 included farm equipment that was destroyed. T...