To the Editor: Thanks to the hundreds of runners and the Newtown community for coming out on Saturday June 20th, 2015 in support of the Newtown Parks and Recreation’s 41st annual Rooster Run 5K. It wa...

To the Editor: Gary Wheeler has been a Newtown police officer (now retired) and a school bus driver for 46 years.  We had the wonderful opportunity of having Mr Wheeler chauffer our children from kind...

To the Editor: The following message has been e-mailed to Dr Erardi and the Board of Education. Jim Gaston’s paper has given you some compelling reasons why Hawley School should not be closed. He...

To the Editor: On behalf of the planning team for the Community Connections event held on June 11th at the Newtown Congregational Church, I would like to thank several individuals and groups for their...

To the Editor: In my view, the consideration to close Hawley School is misguided, at best. My wife and I moved here with three children in 1987 because of the school system and the proximity of Hawley...

To the Editor: Some things are irreplaceable. One horrific December day in 2012, 20 precious first graders and six educators were taken from us. Our lives were changed forever. We can do nothing to br...

To the Editor: Mary Hawley was not shortsighted.  We shouldn’t be either.  It seems to me that the powers that be are jumping the gun when it comes to closing any of  schools.  There are generations y...

To the Editor: We are Newtown. And I like to imagine a parade of students from all over town, walking together to celebrate the new Sandy Hook School on opening day in 2016. Not everyone will be able ...

To the Editor: Why are some routine functions of some town departments performed only at the will of the first selectman? When a complaint was made to Land Use recently about violations in my neighbor...

To the Editor: The Board of Trustees of the Heritage Preservation Trust of Newtown, Inc.—which administers the Newtown Meeting House—wishes to publicly thank the Horticulture Club of Newtown for its c...