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During a regular meeting May 20, the Board of Selectmen approved acquiring a new custodial financial institution for the town’s pension and other post-employment benefits (OPEB) plans. That evening, selectmen also approved a two-year agreement to pro...

Business name: Bounty Hunters Custom Baits Address: 129 South Main Street Owner: T.J. DeFelice Manager: Eric Lockwood Background: “We’re fishermen who started a business,” said owner T.J. DeFelice and manager Eric Lockwood almost ...

“No question is a bad one. No question is too little or big,” said First Selectman Dan Rosenthal. He was speaking to the roughly ten residents to join him on the first in a series of Walk and Talk strolls through Fairfield Hills, in which he invites ...

Newtown High School’s boys’ volleyball team defeated visiting East Hartford 3-0 (25-18, 25-21, 25-16) in the Class L state tournament quarterfinals on May 30. The second-seeded Nighthawks had a first-round bye and hosted No. 7 East Hartford, which ha...

The second-seeded Newtown High School baseball team came from behind for a 2-1 walk-off extra-inning victory over visiting and No. 15 Naugatuck in the Class LL state tournament’s second round, on May 30. Pinch runner Brett Melchionno scored all the w...

The dispatchers at the Newtown Emergency Communications Center at Town Hall South, 3 Main Street, report the following calls for Newtown Volunteer Ambulance Corps: Thursday, May 23: 12:15 pm, unconscious/syncope; 2:08 pm, bleeding/non-traumatic; ...

Is a government within a government anachronistic? The Borough of Newtown encompasses just over 1,200 acres in the center of town and is inhabited by, according to the 2010 census, around 1,900 citizens. Incorporated in 1824, it is a self-governing m...

The dispatchers at the Newtown Emergency Communications Center at Town Hall South, 3 Main Street, report the following fire calls and the responders: Thursday, May 23: 12:34 pm, wires down, near 170 Mt Pleasant Road, Hawleyville and Hook & ladder...

Warrants/Drugs Police report that at about 6:36 pm on May 29, they spotted Michael Paradise, 33, of Redding, exit the passenger side of a vehicle at the Main Street flagpole intersection and then walk across Main Street to West Street. Police sa...

There are still openings for the Holcombe Hill 5K Trail Run which will benefit the Newtown Forest Association and REACH. It will take place at the Holcombe Hill Wildlife Preserve, 65 Great Hill Road, on Sunday, June 9. The race starts at 10 am. Ticke...