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Published: Oct 13, 2019 at 11:00 AM
HARTFORD (AP) — Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones should not have been penalized for an angry outburst on his Infowars web show against an attorney for relatives of some of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims, Jones’s lawyer has told the C...
Published: Oct 13, 2019 at 08:00 AM
BETHEL — After surviving a traumatic childhood in 1970s New York and young adulthood living in the shadow of her flamboyant mother, Rita, a makeup-addicted former television singer, author Elissa Altman has managed to build a very different life, set...
Published: Oct 13, 2019 at 07:00 AM
All are invited to join families and individuals from Newtown who will be walking in the CROP Hunger Walk, scheduled this year for Sunday, October 27.
The walk will take place in Fairfield Hills, beginning from and returning to NYA Sports & Fitness C...
Updated: Oct 14, 2019 at 04:21 PM
The first time Matt Cole traveled with a group from Newtown Congregational Church to Biloxi, Miss., to help rebuild homes through Back Bay Mission (BBM), was January 2008.
Hurricane Katrina had struck the region 2½ years earlier. Many homes in that G...
Published: Oct 12, 2019 at 08:00 AM
The 10th Annual Newtown Hook & Ladder Firehouse Ride took place on Saturday, September 28. The event included a 50-mile motorcycle ride and a pig roast, plus entertainment. The activity is a fundraiser for the volunteer fire company.
Published: Oct 12, 2019 at 08:00 AM
The Chamber of Commerce of Newtown is hosting an event to help introduce the community to the agencies and support service providers that are also resources listed in the Chamber’s “Need Help” brochure that was circulated to all Newtown homes earlier...
Updated: Oct 14, 2019 at 11:21 AM
Being Kind, A Brave New Race by a Newtown resident who uses the pen name Linda G. Palma is the author’s first novel. The work explores a “futuristic world,” a “barren world,” that exists “after the world wars end” and a genetically engineered spe...
Published: Oct 12, 2019 at 07:45 AM
Roughly 26 years after Wesley Learning Center opened at Newtown United Methodist Church for the 1993-94 school year, a new director, Diane Fuchs, has taken its helm.
Former director Rahnna Peck started the Sandy Hook preschool.
“She retired officiall...
Published: Oct 12, 2019 at 07:30 AM
Two local attorneys, Eric DaSilva and Robert Hall, have informed the Planning & Zoning Commission (P&Z) that they oppose a developer’s controversial proposal to replace the former Inn At Newtown at 19 Main Street with a rental apartment complex, char...
Published: Oct 12, 2019 at 07:30 AM
Newtown Middle School’s annual Eighth Grade Scarecrow Contest, which raises donations for local charities, will return to the front lawn of the school, 11 Queen Street, October 19 and 20.
Art teacher Leigh Anne Coles, long-term substitute Roxanne Buz...
