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Newtown High School’s field hockey team achieved perfection during the regular season, winning all 16 games, including a 10-0 mark in South-West Conference play. The No. 1 seed Nighthawks look to continue their success in the SWC playoffs when they h...

Newtown High School’s girls’ soccer team, coming off a regular season with a whopping seven ties, has a lot of unfinished business that won’t be taken care of, but there will be at least one matchup that gets settled when the Nighthawks begin the pos...

Desperate to get the tying goal, Newtown High School’s boys’ soccer team did everything but knot the score in a hard-fought 2-1 loss to visiting Brookfield, at Treadwell Park on October 24. The defeat was not only tough in its own right, but determin...

Newtown may not have its own symphony orchestra, or even a symphony hall, but on Saturday, November 30, the community can experience the next best thing, right on Main Street. That evening, an ensemble of Waterbury Symphony Orchestra (WSO) musicians ...

To the Editor: As election day approaches, I believe it is important for Newtown voters to consider their current choices and remember the past history of what the major political parties of Newtown have given us. Over the past 25 years, what have Ne...

To the Editor: It continues to amaze me that with all that requires attention in Newtown, that a certain element on the Legislative Council spends time and resources on something far off on the fringes of reality — the all-encompassing disposable pla...

To the Editor: Thank you for your fine coverage of the pollinator garden in memory of Tammy Hazen last week. Designing it and seeing the garden through to implementation (90 percent at this point), with the remarkable support of Mary Gaudet-Wilson, h...

To the Editor: My name is Carol Walsh, and I am running for Legislative Council D3. If you have been following this year’s local elections, you will have heard nearly every candidate speak of “fiscal responsibility” while some also talk about “rootin...

To the Editor: This past Monday, October 28, Newtown’s plastic bag ban/paper bag fee ordinance went into effect. Passed on party lines by the Legislative Council, it goes beyond the actions taken by the state to tax plastic bags. It’s a burdensome ma...

To the Editor: As Election Day approaches, Newtown voters have a lot of choices to make about how our town grows and moves forward. Over the past two years, the Democratic team leading the town has consistently done the right thing for the town. We h...