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The C.H. Booth Library had a full class registered for its adult holiday needle felting class, taught by Katie Stevenson, on December 11. Ms Stevenson provided different colored felts, needles, and Styrofoam blocks for students to use while making th...

Occupation: I’m a real estate broker and local realtor with RE/MAX Right Choice on South Main Street. We opened that office as RE/MAX Enterprise around 2009, and I was an owner at the time and had two other offices. We sold them to a larger compa...

Hawley Elementary School first grade students wrote what they feel is the meaning of being kind on the bellies of these snowmen, posted on a bulletin board at the school the week of December 10, under the title, “Cool To Be Kind.” One student wrote, ...

Inland Wetlands Commission (IWC) members are continuing their review of numerous wetlands violations that have been uncovered at the Planters’ Choice properties on Huntingtown Road and Meadowbrook Road. They are formulating a list of remedies for the...

“I hope U know how loved U are” Dave Maldonado and Noah Reich have been traveling across the country in recent months, departing from their home in the Encino neighborhood of Los Angeles and spreading that message to communities that have been affect...

The Board of Education heard a report on special education practices and procedures from consultants at its meeting on December 18: The report recommends further district-level reviews. Also at the meeting, the school board approved extending the dis...

The Board of Selectmen unanimously approved a four-year contract with bargaining unit employees of Newtown’s Department of Public Works (DPW) during a brief regular meeting December 17. The agreement is retroactive to July 1, 2018, when the former co...

Twenty-six luminaria bags were placed on the Fairfield Hills campus sign on Friday, December 14, and lit around dusk. Each bag represented one of the educators or one of the children killed six years earlier on 12/14. It was a quiet observance on a d...

The dispatchers at the Newtown Emergency Communications Center at Town Hall South at 3 Main Street report the following calls for Newtown Volunteer Ambulance Corps: Thursday, December 13: 9:39 am, bleeding/non-traumatic; 9:56 am, fall/accident; 1...

BETHEL — Newtown High School's wrestling team scored a 56-12 victory over host Bethel on December 19. The Nighthawks got three wins via pin and a pair in major decisions, with the rest all by way of forfeit. James Tibolla won his 113-pound weight div...