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To the Editor: As part of the town’s ownership of the Fairfield Hills campus, the Planning and Zoning Commission requires that we review and possibly update the Master Plan of Development for the campus every five years. To that end, last August, the...

Name: Eliza Hallabeck Title: Education Reporter Duties: Covering education news in Newtown, both in the schools and at Board of Education meetings. Other duties include weekend coverage, writing general stories, video editing, coordinatin...

UPDATE (April 24, 2019): This story has been updated with additional comments from Parks & Recreation officials and the Board of Finance Chair that were received after the initial posting of this report.  An incorrect reference to a Sandy Hook c...

The second annual Run4Hunger-Newtown, benefiting FAITH Food Pantry, will take place on Saturday, May 11, on the campus of Fairfield Hills. The race starts at 8:30 am, with on-site registration beginning at 7 am. Those interested in running or donatin...

Newtown High School’s softball team got back into the win column with an offensive outburst — two dozen runs to be exact — against visiting Kolbe Cathedral of Bridgeport on April 18. The Nighthawks swung heavy bats en route to a 24-2 triumph over the...

It doesn’t seem to matter who Newtown High School’s volleyball team plays. The Nighthawks improved to 9-0 overall, posting their sixth and seventh 3-0 triumphs with wins over FCIAC teams, host Danbury on April 17 and visiting Trumbull the next day. I...

WATERBURY — The newspaper industry and Connecticut lost a titan of the free press and devoted patron of the community Saturday with the death of William J. Pape II. The longtime editor, former publisher, president, and chairman of the board of Americ...

David Nelson Byrne, Sr, passed away peacefully at his home in El Segundo, Calif., on Saturday, March 30, 2019, surrounded by his wife and children. David was born in Patterson, N.J., on September 24, 1941, to Roy and Mary Byrne. He is survived by his...

Every year since 2013, Sandy Hook resident and gun violence prevention advocate Monte Frank and his Team 26 cycling colleagues have traveled between Newtown and Washington, D.C., to remember those lost to gun violence here in Newtown on 12/14 as well...

To the Editor: In 2017 Stop & Shop made over two billion dollars in profits plus a $225 million dollar tax cut windfall as result of President Trump’s corporate tax cut. This tax cut was sold on the “Trickle Down Theory,” which economists state has n...