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In recognition of April as National Poetry Month, Yale College Dean Mark Schenker will present a series of lecture-discussions at C.H. Booth Library on three of the most popular American poets of the 20th Century. Dr Schenker’s series will open on Sa...

Bunnell High School in Stratford hosted the Musical Arts Conference (MAC) competition on Saturday, February 23, when the Newtown Junior Varsity Color Guard earned first place in the middle school division with a score of 69.9 with its show “It’s Comi...

STAMFORD — Kyle Lyddy, 32, formerly of Newtown, and his defense lawyer appeared on February 27 in Connecticut Superior Court in Mr Lyddy’s ongoing first-degree larceny case involving his alleged misappropriation of approximately $500,000 from Match M...

SOUTHBURY — State police have arrested a former Garner Correctional Institution inmate on felony charges for sexual actions he allegedly took while incarcerated at the high-security prison for men at 50 Nunnawauk Road in Newtown. State police said th...

Newtown High School’s midyear graduates were celebrated in the school’s cafetorium in a ceremony on February 21. Family and friends smiled as the four students who attended the event walked across the stage to be recognized. Students who have met the...

During a special meeting February 26 following a weather-related postponement the week before, the Legislative Council approved a proposal to modestly expand the amount of tax relief being granted to qualifying local seniors and totally disabled resi...

Girl Scouts of Connecticut announced that February 22 to 24 was National Girl Scout Cookie Weekend, and across the state, Girl Scouts will be delivering their cookies starting March 2. Whenever you begin feasting on your goodies, make sure to check t...

RIDGEFIELD — Stephen Schwartz’s Working, A Musical, based on the Studs Terkel book with the same title, has been updated and localized by Director Daniel C. Levine and is now on stage at ACT of Connecticut. In its new form, the show offers an intimat...

About 10:50 pm on Monday, February 25, police were dispatched to a motor vehicle incident that had occurred in Huntingtown, near the intersection of Huntingtown Road and Meadowbrook Road. In that incident, an unspecified vehicle had driven up onto th...

The following students made the High Honor Roll and Honor Roll for the second quarter marking period at Newtown High School for the 2018-19 school year. The honor roll listings were recently released by the school for publication. Students earn recog...