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Leading up to Thanksgiving, the Sandy Hook Permanent Memorial Commission (SHPMC) appeared to have a lot to be thankful for. After months of uncertainty with the future of its permanent memorial design, the commission reviewed the most recent design r...

Unprecedented requests for assistance this year covering immediate mental health intervention expenses are forcing the Newtown-Sandy Hook Community Foundation to adjust how it will disburse benefits in 2020. Foundation Director Lucie Connell, MPA, an...

Sandy Hook Crash About 4:05 pm on November 22, on eastbound Berkshire Road, near Pole Bridge Road, motorist Nazzarene Belbusti, 26, of West Haven, who was driving a 2014 Nissan Altima sedan, hit the rear end of an eastbound 2018 Mazda CX-5 SUV d...

The dispatchers at the Newtown Emergency Communications Center at Town Hall South, 3 Main Street, report the following fire calls and the responders: Thursday, November 21: 8:13 am, alarm, 99 South Main Street, Hook & Ladder, Sandy Hook, and Bots...

Newtown Public Schools will be closed Monday, December 2, due to the weather. The announcement was made early Monday morning.

The Newtown Marching Band & Color Guard was celebrated at the Board of Education’s meeting on November 19. Superintendent of Schools Dr Lorrie Rodrigue introduced the band members present by announcing that the group earned bronze at the USBands Nati...

The National Weather Service (NWS) continues to monitor a large winter storm that is expected to reach the Northeast/southern New England states by late Sunday, December 1. Organizers of events effected by the weather are invited to contact The Newto...

Children have the chance to design and publish their own books thanks to the Book Builder program, now offered through the C.H. Booth Library. Book Builder is a cloud-based software program by Varidigm Technologies that allows users to create a custo...

As those few remaining straggler leaves fall off the trees and the forecast of snow theoretically fast approaches, horseback riders continue their love of equestrian life here in town. They ride throughout the year and also through changes to the lan...

On a blustery, cold, wet November day, members of Newtown Underwater Search and Rescue (NUSAR) took it upon themselves to get even wetter, while training in underwater search techniques on the bottom of Lake Lillinonah, where the water temperature wa...