Michael McCarthy stood on the bottom of Lake Lillinonah Sunday morning, March 8, with a clear view of the surface. “We were standing on the bottom beneath a hole in the ice and we could see guys on th...

After three back-to-back winter storms last week, it feels as if winter has released its grip on us, at last. I think I even saw some grassy areas peeking through, after the sunny days midweek. This h...

Occupation: I’m a printer. I work for R.R. Donnelley; we’re all over the world. I’m a salesperson, so I work out of my office in Newtown. Family: My wife is Barbara Kershaw. She’s an attorney ...

March 16, 1990 Shoppers at the Newtown Grand Union won’t have to listen much longer to the buzz of power drills intermingling with piped-in music as the steer their carts from aisle to aisle. “We...

Guests will be surprised at who they see strutting down the catwalk at the “Modeling for Makers” gala event, Saturday, April 18. Hosted by the C.H. Booth Library Board of Trustees, heads will turn, sa...

Resident and artist Dave Brooker’s cheeks and hair bore rainbow splashes of paint. His hands, white smock, and shoes also carried a slash of red, smudge of blue, and random dabs in many colors as he l...

Walt Disney’s Into The Woods begins screening tonight at Edmond Town Hall Theatre. Thanks to an ongoing gesture of kindness by Ingersoll Auto of Danbury, the March 13-15 movie screenings will be free ...

Maxine Mangiafico, Bill Hamilton, and Robert Lund are philatelists — and if that word is frightening, rest easy. It merely means that Ms Mangiafico of Newtown, Mr Hamilton of Patterson, N.Y., and Mr L...

Newtown United Methodist Church’s Pasta Project will celebrate its 25th anniversary this month. The monthly NUMC Saturday Pasta Dinner will be this weekend, on March 7, from 5 to 7:30 pm, in the churc...

March 9, 1990 Turner Construction workers have started building the foundation of the state’s $52 million, 400-cell jail off Nunnawauk Road, and a tunnel that will connect a maintenance bui...