Under the tutelage of creative writing instructor Chris Belden, inmates of Garner Correctional Institute have published three editions of a literary magazine, Sentences. Issue number 4 is ready to be ...

Members of the Ben’s Bells Newtown (BBN) team visited Pequenakonck Elementary School in North Salem, N.Y., recently. A family session on January 31 had 140 students, teachers, and parents all working ...

Recently, a friend offered me some tortilla chips from a local restaurant. I declined, explaining that lately corn chips were making me congested. (What the heck?!)  That got me lamenting to him about...

Nearly a century separates the lives of the man recognized as Newtown’s first historian, Ezra Levan Johnson, and Newtown’s first official historian, Daniel Cruson, but uncanny similarities between the...

Survivors and supporters gathered at Newtown High School Monday night with one goal in mind: fighting cancer. Kicking off this year’s Relay For Life, which will take place from the evening of May 31 i...

Valentine’s Day came a little early for some of Newtown’s youngest as well as the town’s most experienced residents. For the second year in a row, the Newtown Youth Basketball Association (NYBA) teame...

Occupation: I work for Prudential Financial in Shelton as a technical product manager. I’ve been there for 16 years. Family: I’ve been married to John for 13 years. I met him on a blind date, ...

February 17, 1989 The question has arisen at Newtown High School about whether or not using an Indian as the school’s mascot is a moral issue that should be addressed. The issue, in fact, is part...

UPDATE (February 13, 2014): This story has been updated to include a second location where the Life is Good T-shirts for Newtown can be purchased. Proceeds from all sales of the shirts are donated...