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Newtown High School senior Carter Goodrich was selected as a finalist to compete for the $14,000 Barton L. Weller scholarship, named in honor of the late Barton L. Weller, founder of Vitramon Incorporated in Monroe. Established in 1977, the scholarsh...

The Newtown Fund Depot Day, when gifts are collected and distributed to designated local families, is only a few weeks away. Since 1959, The Newtown Fund has helped Newtown’s residents in need during the December holidays. Most referrals come through...

Sandy Hook Elementary School hosted a full-school celebration on November 21 to highlight its successful involvement in the annual Women Involved in Newtown (WIN) Thanksgiving Basket Program. For the school’s efforts, classes worked in buddy teams to...

After meeting in an executive session, the Board of Education approved new goals for the board on November 20. The executive session included having Connecticut Association of Boards of Education (CABE) Attorney Nicholas Caruso attend to offer insigh...

Newtown residents who wish to speak in favor of, or against, Newtown’s proposed ordinance prohibiting the storage, disposal, or use of fracking waste may do so at a public hearing scheduled for 7 pm on Wednesday, December 5. The Legislative Council h...

Newtown Youth & Family Services (NYFS) will once again benefit from a family-friendly event sponsored by Newtown Savings Bank. The 33rd Annual Holiday Festival is scheduled for Sunday, December 2, from 11 am until 4 pm, at Main Street locations. Cand...

Police have installed The Mitten Tree in the police station lobby at 3 Main Street. Police Officer Maryhelen McCarthy, who coordinates the annual project for the needy, asks that donors provides gifts of new mittens, gloves, hats, scarves, and other ...

Newtown Hook & Ladder volunteer firefighters were dispatched at 11:48 am on Sunday, November 25, to the Newtown Country Club at 2 Country Club Road after receiving a report that a kitchen worker there had been injured in a cooking accident involving ...

State police report that during the Thanksgiving holiday period from Tuesday, November 20, through Sunday, November 25, they augmented their regular patrols with troopers in a traffic enforcement drive focused on violations including drunken driving ...

UPDATE (Monday, December 3, 2018): This story has been updated to reflect to correct opening night of Hanukkah. * * * * * The Mars InSight lander, which launched into space in May from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, safely touched down...