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Newtown High School's boys' lacrosse team, seeded tenth in the Class L state tournament, visited No. 7 Xavier of Middletown in the first round on May 29 and came away with a 15-8 victory. Tucker Garrity had four goals and five assists, and Brett Pier...

Update: Game time for Thursday's contest versus Naugatuck has been changed to 2:30 pm. Highlighted by a pair of fifth-inning homeruns, the second-seeded Newtown High School baseball team posted a 9-1 victory over visiting and No. 31 Middletown i...

Seeded 17th in the Class LL state bracket, Newtown High School's softball team took the short trip to Danbury to face the No. 16 Hatters in first-round action on May 29. Newtown lost 10-2, ending a strong season that saw the Nighthawks post a regular...

A four-goal deficit late in the first half, against a Wilton squad out of the tough FCIAC, known for producing some of the best lacrosse teams in the state, didn’t faze Newtown High School’s girls’ squad. The host Nighthawks rallied to even the score...

Newtown High School golfer David Brestovansky took home South-West Conference championship medalist honors as the tournament's top golfer for the second year in a row. Brestovansky shot a 76 to lead Newtown to a fourth-place team finish at Ridgewood ...

To the Editor: The Board of Burgesses for the Borough of Newtown shall present its revised 2019/20 budget for a vote to its residents on June 6, 2019, at 7:30 pm, in the Alexandria Room of the Edmond Town Hall. Our new proposed budget includes an alm...

Update: The lacrosse game time has been changed again and will begin at 4:30 pm. A few changes have been made for Newtown High School’s state tournament games this week. Times of today’s baseball and softball, and boys' lacrosse contests have be...

“Hey, diddle, diddle, the cat and the fiddle, the cow jumped over the moon …” —Mother Goose Nursery Rhyme Cows in Newtown in the late 1920s were more grounded, however. Rather than the moon, cows on a long-ago working Taunton farm traveled a pat...

To the Editor: On June 6, 7:30 pm, voters who reside in the Borough will meet in the Alexandria Room of the Edmond Town Hall to review and accept/reject the budget proposed by the Borough’s Board of Burgesses. At a similar meeting a few weeks ago, th...

To the Editor: I attended the Borough of Newtown budget meeting on May 14, where the budget as proposed was defeated by a narrow 30 to 26 vote. I urge all Borough residents to attend the next budget meeting and vote No again. The voters have been tol...