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One local police responder termed the situation, “the miracle on Cherry Street.” At about 9:22 am on Friday, June 21, a Toyota Camry sedan being driven northward on Cherry Street by a local 17-year-old boy, went out of control, traveled to the left, ...

Occupation: I am a professional organizer and owner of The Organized Hive, which is based here in Newtown. I help clients who are feeling overwhelmed by their stuff and by their spaces. I help them to eliminate clutter, simplify spaces, and strea...

Following a June 13 public hearing and discussion by Water & Sewer Authority (WSA) members, the WSA unanimously approved extending municipal sanitary sewer service to a 29-unit condominium complex long-planned for a 29-acre site at 41, 43, 45, and 47...

Newtown Environmental Action Team (NEAT) member Lynn Hungaski stopped by FAITH Food Pantry, on CHurch Hill Road, on June 11 to drop off a bin containing reusable grocery bags. NEAT is making the bins with bags available to the public following a rece...

The town has enlisted the services of a traffic engineering firm to help it devise plans to resolve a chronic motorist speeding problem on Toddy Hill Road, a north-south town road that links Sandy Hook to Botsford. Toddy Hill Road’s name becomes Bots...

Along with filling the district’s new director of teaching and learning position at its meeting on June 18, the Board of Education approved its May financial report and celebrated two educators. A preview of the district’s new website was also demons...

To paraphrase the famous Otto von Bismarck quote: Laws are like sausages. It’s better not to see them being made. But that did not stop Newtown constituents from digging into slices of sausage pizza while hearing about how a number of legislative ini...

The C.H. Booth Library’s Summer Reading kickoff was one for the books. The free event, which took place in the Edmond Town Hall theater on June 17, honored local literary advocate Louise Tambascio and had a special performance by internationally reno...

As Reed Intermediate School Principal Anne Uberti welcomed her entire school community to an end of the year assembly on June 13, the last day of the 2018-19 school year, she said the musical event was for “sixth graders getting ready to move on and ...

Following a series of other I-84 ramp closures this week, just a reminder that there remains an Exit 10 ramp closure on I-84 Westbound, Friday, June 21, between the hours of 10 pm and 5 am. Detour information for this roadwork is as follows: Eastboun...