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Editor: Our entire CIAC/Unified Sports staff was disappointed to learn that Kathy Davey will not be continuing as Newtown High School’s Unified Sports coach. She has been a vital and involved coach and has developed one of the finest Unified Sports p...

To the Editor, The Newtown Tennis Association (NTA) is a local, growing, nonprofit 501(c)(7) organization with 175-plus members devoted to the development and promotion of tennis in the town of Newtown. The NTA creates events to grow the game locally...

Elliot Chase Gregory, resident of Sandy Hook and graduate of Newtown High School, passed away on Sunday, June 23, 2019. He was 20 years old. He was born in Norwalk to Henry and Mary Ellen Collins Gregory. Elliot was a talented lacrosse athlete and pl...

Michael Francis Kutka, of Newtown, passed peacefully on June 25, 2019, at his home after a short illness. He will be sadly missed by his wife, Anne (neé Haughey); sons, Michael and Patrick; daughters-in-law, Fiona and Melissa; grandchildren, Aoibhe, ...

UPDATE (June 27, 2019): This story has been updated with additional comments from First Selectman Dan Rosenthal. * * * * * Calling news about Newtown’s Hubbell plant closing “a kick in the gut” and a “wake-up call” to state officials, membe...

A group of health and wellness experts will host a Community Conversation on Friday, June 28, at 6:30 pm, at Edmond Town Hall. The free event will focus on improving health through relationships. Attendees will have an opportunity to learn how to tak...

Allen H. Hubbard, 57, died peacefully in his sleep on June 22, 2019, at his home in Newtown. He was born in Danbury and was a resident of Newtown for the past 34 years. He was an active member of the Newtown community, proudly serving as Youth Minist...

To the Editor: Here’s our bag reality. Thanks to the undue burden imposed on Newtown’s businesses and residents by our Legislative Council, beginning in October, Newtown’s businesses will be banned from providing you plastic checkout bags and forced ...

The Design Advisory Board (DAB) is reviewing plans for the town’s new $15.1-million police station, a project that will involve expanding and modifying an existing vacant office building at 191 South Main Street to replace the police department’s out...

The scope of an urgent public works project to replace a collapsed large metallic culvert that passes beneath Mile Hill Road has expanded substantially, with the work required to fix the high-priority problem being more extensive than was initially t...