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Published: Nov 20, 2020 at 08:00 AM
Newtown’s five fire companies will once again join together the weekend before Thanksgiving to collect donations for the town’s food pantry.
Despite the coronavirus pandemic, this year’s event will be presented.
The 2020 Fill The Fire Truck for FAITH...
Updated: Nov 20, 2020 at 08:41 AM
Attorneys for a number of Sandy Hook families engaged in legal action against conspiracy theorist and broadcaster Alex Jones said he and his legal team employed a routine tactic to delay key witnesses in the case from being deposed.
According to a st...
Published: Nov 20, 2020 at 07:00 AM
Please make note that there is a change for the 2020 Fill The Fire Truck event this Saturday, November 21. After we went to press last week, we received information that, rather than collecting at its fire station, members of Botsford Fire Rescue wil...
Published: Nov 20, 2020 at 07:00 AM
December 8, 1995
Fairfield Hills Hospital, the state psychiatric institution which once housed about 3,000 patients, is set to close on December 15. Implementing Gov John Rowland’s decision to close the facility, the state Department of Mental H...
Updated: Nov 20, 2020 at 08:59 AM
The Borough of Newtown has finalized regulations that will be applied to any residential property owner who already has, or is looking to create, an accessory apartment within the local tax district in the center of town.
Borough Zoning Commission (B...
Published: Nov 19, 2020 at 04:30 PM
Go crazy! Whoop it up! Join in raucous merrymaking! That’s the directive the idiom “Paint the town red!” encourages.
But on November 12, Newtown was painted red — on the state COVID-19 data map. And that’s no cause for celebration. It means a town ha...
Updated: Nov 19, 2020 at 03:33 PM
If positive COVID cases continue at their present trajectory, the Newtown Health District could be tracking more than 500 positive cases by the weekend — at least 100 of which are currently active, according to Health District Director Donna Culbert....
Published: Nov 19, 2020 at 03:00 PM
The Board of Finance (BOF) met in person at the Municipal Center, with a call-in option, for a regularly scheduled meeting on November 9 to go over questions with the Sustainable Energy Commission as well as CIP recommendations.
Sustainable Energ...
Published: Nov 19, 2020 at 02:30 PM
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Published: Nov 19, 2020 at 10:21 AM
All town, state, and federal offices will be closed on Thursday and Friday, November 26 and 27, in observance of the Thanksgiving holiday.
Locally, the transfer station at 4 Ethan Allen Road will be closed both days; it will reopen on Saturday, Novem...
