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Laughing and splashing in the bright blue water were Michele Hunt and children Jackson Hunt and Reagan Clement. The three enjoyed Newtown’s newest pool at the recently-opened Community Center and Senior Center facility in Fairfield Hills. Since its r...

A Water Safety Week initiative is planned for August 19-22 at Newtown Community Center, 8 Simpson Street. The free children’s water safety program, open to ages 3-10, will provide water safety education and swimming skills. Four 60-minute sessions wi...

Carrying a balloon and wearing a wide grin was Lia Spremulo of Newtown. Written on her balloon was the message: “Welcome Back Kayla!” Lia and her mother, Cayanne Benore, for the third year are welcoming Kayla for a week-long visit through the Fresh A...

The old saying “like father, like son” has a new twist in the Thoesen household. Or, to be more accurate, on the baseball diamonds. Ian Thoesen, head coach of the Newtown High School baseball team and an instructor for The Nighthawks Summer Baseball ...

The hot summer days are anything but a reminder of football season, except over at Blue & Gold Stadium, where each weekday morning for several weeks leading into preseason practices, members of the Newtown High School football team have been hard at ...

Selected areas of Lake Zoar are to be chemically treated this week with Reward (Diquat) and ProcellaCOR, herbicides targeting control the aquatic nuisance plants Eurasian watermilfoil and curlyleaf pondweed.  The treatment is tentatively scheduled fo...

Ginny Reichardt Moseley, 59, of Ninety Six, S.C., wife of Hugh D. Moseley, Jr, died Saturday, August 3, 2019. Born in Newtown, she was a daughter of Gail Hickman Gregory and the late Chuck Reichardt. Ginny was a graduate of Newtown High School in San...

UPDATE (August 6, 2019): This story has been updated with additional comments from the Newtown Action Alliance. * * * * * * In Hartford, Governor Ned Lamont released the following statement, August 4, regarding the mass shootings that occurred t...

After a more than seven-year courageous battle with cancer, Christopher Whitman Benson, 36, born July 29, 1983, a resident of Sandy Hook, peacefully left us on July 31, 2019. He was surrounded by his closest loved ones at Mount Desert Island Hospital...

Flags have been ordered lowered to memorialize people who were killed in two mass shootings over the weekend. Twenty people were killed, and dozens injured, Saturday morning, August 3, in a shopping mall in El Paso, Texas. Nine more people were kille...