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In a visit to South-West Conference foe Immaculate of Danbury on January 23 Newtown High School’s girls’ basketball team had its most complete game of the campaign, winning 48-32. Newtown fell 46-44 in a closely-contested battle with visiting nonconf...

It was quite a performance for the Newtown High School and Newtown Youth Cheer programs at the Fairfield Ludlowe Cheer Open on January 25. In fact, it was a clean sweep for the Nighthawks. D10 earned first place in the Youth Rec Division and won the ...

The Newtown-New Fairfield (NNF) co-op hockey team took on the Brookfield, Bethel, Danbury, Immaculate (BBDI) team at Danbury Ice Arena on January 22. The Nighthawks fell 4-0 in a game that was closer than the final score indicates; it was scoreless i...

To the Editor: Voting is a critical element of the democratic process. In the recent presidential election, voters supported candidates who they believed best addressed their primary interests. For many Republican voters, such concerns included risin...

To the Editor: The visual character of Newtown is obvious, the picturesque range of its man-made, one-at-a-time structures, some old, some very old, some new, some grade traditionale, reflecting generations, ie, history. Some carefully humbled by sty...

To the Editor: That Americans have elected to the country’s highest office a man who epitomizes cruelty, immorality, and an attitude that smacks of fascism (see Merriam-Webster for a definition) is appalling. Every day since January 20, another edict...

To the Editor: This past weekend marked the completion of 42 years of service by the hundreds of Volunteers who have, faithfully, responded to Jesus’ call in the Gospels to feed the hungry, to shelter the homeless and to clothe the naked (Matthew 25)...

To the Editor: Thanks to Trump supporters an individual has been returned to an office that he once tried to take by force. “To the Proud Boys – stand back and standby” were not just words spoken during a presidential debate but a call to arms by a m...

First Selectman Jeff Capeci has indicated during his recent budget presentations at the Board of Selectmen meetings that if the town were to budget for all the same services in fiscal year 2025-26 that there are in fiscal year 2024-25, the increase o...

Michael E. Criscuolo, 57, of Newtown passed away unexpectedly on Thursday, January 23, at Danbury Hospital. He was the beloved husband to Jody Eldredge Criscuolo. Michael was born in New Haven on July 24, 1967, and was the loving son of Joseph and An...