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Local resident Gary Smith said he had not yet made a commitment to volunteering with any of the two dozen organizations soliciting assistance Friday, May 10, as the Friends of Newtown Seniors (FONS) co-hosted an intimate volunteer fair with the local...

The Society of Creative Arts of Newtown (SCAN) will host Bivenne Harvey Staiger painting in watercolor at its next meeting, scheduled for Wednesday, May 22, at 1:30 pm. Her subject will be an animal. The program will be in the lower meeting room of N...

Logging in at 200 miles longer and twice as topographically challenging, while battling problematic weather for much of their six days on the road, Newtown’s Team 26 took on their 2019 ride like they were on a mission from a higher power. Up until th...

The dispatchers at the Newtown Emergency Communications Center at Town Hall South at 3 Main Street report the following calls for Newtown Volunteer Ambulance Corps: Thursday, April 25: 7:07 am, sick/unknown; 8:14 am, allergic reaction; 12:26 pm, ...

The Matthew Curtiss House, home of Newtown Historical Society, is one of the oldest buildings on Main Street. It was constructed about 1750 and purchased by Matthew Curtiss in 1781; Curtiss continued to live there until his death in 1824. He is somet...

The ducks are ready! The 19th Annual Newtown Lions Club Great Pootatuck Duck Race will take place on Saturday, May 25, in Sandy Hook Center. The event runs from 10 am until 2:30 pm, when thousands of rubber ducks, each numbered to match a raffle tick...

Newtown Choral Society, under the direction of Mary Andreotta and accompanied by Susan Anthony-Klein, will perform “Centuries of Hit Parades” as its spring concert on Saturday, May 18, at 4 pm, at Newtown Meeting House, 31 Main Street. Tickets are $1...

Newtown High School’s top demi-decile students of the 2019 graduating class were honored and surprised at the school on May 10. Superintendent of Schools Dr Lorrie Rodrigue and NHS Principal Dr Kimberly Longobucco shared the news with the students af...

Pete Barresi firmly believes there are plenty of opportunities to serve one’s community. “It’s important to stand up and help others,” the Sandy Hook resident said recently. Sometimes that means volunteering for a fire company. Other times it means d...

Newtown elementary schools held spring concerts between May 1 and May 6. Parents, community members, and fellow students were invited to see each of the events. Hawley Elementary School and Head O’ Meadow Elementary School both had spring concerts on...