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The Catherine Violet Hubbard Foundation (CVHF) hosted its free Sunday at the Sanctuary workshop about backyard farm animals on May 23. The event had been postponed from May 16 after being rained out. At the sanctuary on Old Farm Road, families had th...

The dispatchers at the Newtown Emergency Communications Center, at 191 South Main Street, report the following fire calls and the responders: Thursday, May 20: 3:20 pm, brush fire, Barnabas Road, Hawleyville and Hook & Ladder responded; 9:11 pm, ...

Although it is the hundreds of Newtown ambulance, fire, and dive rescue volunteers who dash out of their homes and workplaces when emergencies are reported, it was the Legislative Council that answered the call for support of these selfless individua...

Newtown High School’s track and field teams participated in the South-West Conference championships, the girls at Weston High on May 24, and the boys at Bethel High on May 25. The girls scored 102.75 points and came in second to Weston (153.5). Both ...

The 47th Annual Rooster Run/Walk, an annual event presented by Newtown Parks & Recreation, will return on Saturday, June 5. This year’s event has a new 5K certified course, the option of a 10K route, and a 100-yard Little Chicks Dash for children age...

After being run-ruled by Masuk of Monroe twice during the regular season, Newtown High School’s baseball team got hot at the plate when the teams met in the South-West Conference tournament quarterfinals. Unfortunately for the seventh-seeded Nighthaw...

On Saturday night, May 22, the Town Players of Newtown welcomed back a live audience for the first time in nearly a year, offering utterly charming performance of songs from the 1920s American Songbook. It just felt right, as guests settled in for wh...

Passersby heading up and down Main Street tooted their horns and waved as a group of mostly red and white outfitted Newtown Woman's Club volunteers carried on a long standing tradition of planting more than 200 American Flags around the base of the "...

St Rose of Lima Roman Catholic Church has, in concert with State of Connecticut and Diocese of Bridgeport, loosened its COVID-19 guidelines. Reservations are no longer required for those attending Mass at the 46 Church Hill Road church. Masks are no ...

Some things take time. In the case of Newtown High School’s boys’ lacrosse team, getting up speed in the beginning of a coronavirus-impacted preseason, one in which a majority of Nighthawks had to quarantine rather than practice leading up to the fir...