Look out oat bran, acai berries, and coconut water. It’s little, knobby, and gnarly, but fresh turmeric is the food world’s new darling. Once difficult to obtain, turmeric, widely used in Indian cooki...

Occupation: I am the owner of Extreme Fitness Martial Arts in Plaza South, and an instructor in kickboxing and karate there. Family: I’m married to Cindy. We have six children, Christian is 16...

January 27, 1989 Lynn Pace — who originally didn’t offer an explanation for her resignation as social service director on December 1, 1988 — now says she quit as a direct result of First Selectma...

A fashion and interior designer for her entire adult life, Newtown resident Beth Kellar Uniacke has turned to fashioning words. Her debut young readers’ book, Sara the Desk Traveler, was released Wedn...

Music For Newtown will hold its second online auction January 22-29. Numerous artists, including Lorde, Miley Cyrus, Brittany Spears, Black Sabbath and many others have donated special limited edition...

The late author Rachel Carson is often credited with awakening Americans to the hazards of DDT contamination in the food chain. But eight years before Rachel Carson cautioned the world about the dange...

Another year of counted cross, lazy daisy, and cable stitching began on Thursday, January 9, at Christ the King Lutheran Church. Founded in the early 1980s, the Friends of Counted Embroidery group hav...

Birds are “amazing,” said Garden Club of Newtown President Holly Kocet. Recently she noticed, “The birds were so busy at the feeders.” But as temperatures dropped to frigid single digits and lower thi...