Log In

Students were teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary School’s two makerspace nights, held May 21 and 23, when parents were invited for an evening of learning. The first evening was held for kindergarten, first grade, and second grade students, and the sec...

At the quarterly meeting of the Public Safety Committee for Garner Correctional Institution on Tuesday, June 4, committee members met the prison’s new warden — Amonda Hannah. Warden Hannah is the ninth warden of the 260,000-square-foot facility for m...

Imagine a dark and rain-drenched evening. Suddenly, there is a medical, fire, and/or police emergency at your home or business. You call 911 and speak with a dispatcher, who gathers all the information needed for the responders to answer your call, i...

Lynn Hungaski with Newtown Environmental Action Team (NEAT) has been busy sending a message: Skip the Straw. By contacting bar and restaurant owners and asking if she can place cards with the message on tables, she is doing her part locally in what i...

UPDATE (Saturday, June 8 2019; 12:54 pm): The young man has been found, and is safe, according to a town official who spoke with The Newtown Bee. * * * * * Newtown Police Department is asking for the public to keep an eye out for a 20-year-old Newtow...

UPDATE (Tuesday, June 11, 2019): This post has been updated to include both names of the new co-owners of Lathrop School of Dance. Marco Saric's name was omitted when this story was originally published. * * * * * For 67 consecutive years, ...

With tufts of weeds spilling along the walking trail and a wheelbarrow nearby, Black Rock Church members from the Fairfield congregation put their backs into clearing parts of the Fruit Trail and Victory Garden in Fairfield Hills, Saturday, June 1. T...

Children’s author and illustrator Clare Pernice was at The Toy Tree Saturday, June 1, seated at a table shaded by an awning on the sidewalk outside the store. Under a blue sky on a breezy day, Ms Pernice signed copies of her Circus Girl book collecti...

Several dozen elected and appointed local officials were joined by counterparts from other neighboring communities and those aspiring to some level of public service May 30 as Newtown hosted a Connecticut Conference of Municipalities (CCM) workshop o...