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Published: May 28, 2020 at 06:00 AM
Anyone from Newtown who has been paying attention to state political races over the past six years or so will see nothing but familiar names when they peruse their ballot this November. Every single contender is either an incumbent who has already be...
Updated: Jun 12, 2020 at 12:43 PM
UPDATE: This report was amended at 10:38 pm on May 28 to report the suspect has been apprehended.
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A former Sandy Hook resident accused of murdering two individuals, including a former Newtown High School classmate, was apprehended in ...
Published: May 27, 2020 at 05:00 PM
Daniel Joseph Melillo, Jr, passed away peacefully on April 28, 2020, in Norwalk. Daniel was born on February 15, 1927, in East Norwalk, a son of the late Gladys Arlene (Fitch) and Daniel Joseph Melillo, Sr.
Daniel was a loving person who enjoyed spor...
Published: May 27, 2020 at 04:30 PM
What has one Newtown neighborhood positively glowing? Glow sticks.
The same neighborhood that hosted a social distance dance party in April collaborated to light up the night on May 16 by taping glow sticks to their clothes then dancing while maintai...
Published: May 27, 2020 at 02:00 PM
BRIDGEPORT— Housatonic Community College’s (HCC) Dean of Academic Affairs Robin Avant has published her first book, The Spirit of Gardening: Gardening for New Bees The Life Revealed Through Gardening!
The 139-page beginner’s resource is a guide, ref...
Published: May 27, 2020 at 02:00 PM
On Sunday May 24, at noon, St Rose of Lima Parish in Newtown celebrated its first Mass on campus since the COVID-19 lockdown on March 16.
Following federal, state and Diocesan mandates, Monsignor Robert Weiss, pastor, designed a “Parking Lot Mass” in...
Updated: May 27, 2020 at 03:05 PM
HARTFORD — Governor Ned Lamont announced May 26 that he was directing U.S. and state flags in Connecticut to be lowered to half-staff as a mark of solemn respect for Connecticut State Police Trooper First Class Eugene Kenneth Baron, Jr, who died on ...
Updated: May 27, 2020 at 10:16 AM
The C.H. Booth Library will have its second library materials drop off day on Thursday, May 28, from 2 to 6 pm, in the back parking lot of the 25 Main Street facility.
The first drop off day, May 21, was successful. The drop off days serve as a means...
Updated: May 27, 2020 at 12:43 PM
Four generations of Newtown residents represented the community in some form during an ambitious and hastily arranged Memorial Day tribute that featured dozens of musicians performing “Taps” in succession, beginning at 10 am, May 25, along the Housa...
Updated: May 26, 2020 at 04:22 PM
After a relatively long period of decline, Connecticut’s number of hospitalized residents diagnosed with COVID-19 increased slightly in the latest report out of Governor Ned Lamont’s office. While the May 25 hospitalizations number only increased by ...
