The Labor Day Parade intends to honor Newtown’s artists on Monday, marching this year to the theme of “Celebrating the Fine Art of Newtown — Honoring SCAN.” SCAN, of course, is the Society of Creative...

The convocation on Monday of educators and school district staff at Newtown High School was true to its name, which according to its Latin root (convocare) is a great calling together. The Board of Ed...

We fear that the sadness we felt this week when we first heard of the death of Julia Wasserman will be more than a match for our ability to cheer ourselves up with memories of her for a long time to c...

Twenty years ago, Newtown’s Planning and Zoning Commission implemented an innovative zoning concept to address its goal at the time of encouraging diverse yet compatible uses in Sandy Hook Center whil...

It is hot. It is humid. It is summer, and half of Newtown is without a pool. It has been nine years since the pool at Dickinson Park was drained for the final time, with health officials and Parks and...

As we have advanced through the industrial and technological ages with their attendant innovations and accomplishments, a human conceit has arisen that our modern impulse to “go big or go home” has so...

It looks like the setting for a post-apocalyptic summer thriller, though Newtown has been less than thrilled about having this blighted property sitting unused for decades in the heart of Botsford. Th...

Commissioner Dianna Wentzell has been on the job just over a month at the helm of Connecticut’s Department of Education. She has been welcomed with a debate over the future of education in the state t...

The Fairfield Hills Authority’s latest flirtation with economic development at the spacious campus home of Newtown’s seat of government hit a snag, as have so many of the other potential liaisons with...

In the hours before the deadline to pass a state budget on Monday, July 27, legislators shifted their attention briefly to quickly approve two major bills affecting the criminal justice system in Conn...