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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...

The town is seeking federal grant money, which if approved, would cover half the estimated $1.9 million cost of replacing aging sanitary sewer lines at the town-owned Fairfield Hills core campus, with the town covering the balance. Fred Hurley, town ...

“Our Mothers; Their Art,” on view at Newtown Municipal Art Gallery through the end of August, features the art of Florence Dohanos and Lucy Durand Sikes, the mothers of Newtown artists Linda Dohanos and Julia Sikes-Provey, respectively. The gallery, ...

As state and other project demands on the low bidder for Newtown’s 2019 road maintenance work begins to lessen, local Public Works Director Fred Hurley has been able to plan for the bulk of work being planned through the end of the 2019 paving season...

Summer is one of the best times for you and your canine pal to spend quality time outdoors. It’s also the season that can be potentially dangerous to dogs as well. In order to keep your pets safe, you will need to learn about the potential hazards su...

Amid the high heat and humidity of a midsummer’s day, the Second Annual Newtown Day drew an estimated 5,000 people on Saturday, July 27, to an athletic field at Fairfield Hills, where rows of food trucks, groups of vendors, and inflatable amusements ...

WASHINGTON DEPOT — Washington Art Association & Gallery (WAA) is presenting “Life in the Balance,” a collection of paintings and drawings by Caroline Harman of Newtown, through August 24. Ms Harman is scheduled to offer an artist’s talk at the WAA ga...

Following extensive discussion at a July 18 public hearing, Planning & Zoning Commission (P&Z) members in a 4-to-1 vote modified an existing special zoning permit for a controversial proposal to increase the number of rental apartment buildings plann...