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Members of the Sandy Hook Permanent Memorial Commission (SHPMC) met via teleconference on September 10 to receive an update on the memorial project from First Selectman Dan Rosenthal and design firm SWA. Rosenthal started off the meeting by informing...

A 55-year-old man was rescued the morning of Saturday, September 19, from Upper Paugussett State Park after a hiking trip turned into a medical emergency. Newtown Volunteer Ambulance Corps, a paramedic, Newtown Underwater Search And Rescue, and firef...

Flags are being lowered across the country this weekend to memorialize United States Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Ginsburg died Friday at her home in Washington D.C., according to the AP and multiple other sources. She was 87 years old....

It was a picturesque scene at Appleberry Farm, 8 Zoar Road, during its Blooms in the Barn with Ballaro Dance on Saturday, September 12. The sun shone brightly, and the late-summer weather was comfortable, as masked attendees participated in a variety...

Since it was codified a little over seven years ago, Newtown officials have utilized a local blight ordinance 12 times. In some cases, the move to use the ordinance against qualified property owners has resulted in the cleanup and correction of condi...

The draft Housatonic Valley Metropolitan Planning Organization (HVMPO) 2021-2024 Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) is a dynamic list of all highway and public transit projects proposed to be undertaken utilizing Federal Highway Administration ...

A much-anticipated surplus transfer the Newtown Board of Education hoped to make into its non-lapsing account for specific educational needs was denied at the Board of Finance meeting after a motion to effect the $1.3 million action failed September ...

Occupation: I’m a first-year physician in the Emergency Medicine Residency at Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia, Penn. Family: My father, Edward Kelleher, a local attorney, and mother, Doreen, live in Newtown. I have an older sis...