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Grace Family Church celebrated a big step last week in the construction of its new church building, which is being built off Covered Bridge Road in Hawleyville. Pastor Sheila Fredericks, the assistant senior pastor at Grace Family Church (GFC) and An...

It's a well known fact that hope begins at dawn at the racetrack, rising with the sun as the fog slowly rises from the wet grass and the sound of roosters signaling the start of another day. The horses gaze out their concrete block stalls, waiting fo...

Two of Newtown’s garden clubs did very well at a recent state-level competition, returning home literally with armloads of honors for creative efforts. The Federated Garden Clubs of Connecticut Inc (FGCC) hosted its 88th Awards Meeting & Luncheon on ...

The Garden Club of Newtown is planning its annual fundraiser — the Holiday Greens & Gifts Sale — for Saturday, December 1, from 9 am to 2 pm. It will again be presented at Newtown Meeting House, 31 Main Street. The Greens Sale features wreaths and do...

Military veterans are honored, and some are remembered, on November 11 each year. Newtown Police Officer Matt Hayes, who served in the Army National Guard from 2000-09, and served in Iraq, received a special show of appreciation earlier this fall. Of...

Boy Scout Troop 370 and Cub Scout Pack 170, which are affiliated with Newtown United Methodist Church at 92 Church Hill Road in Sandy Hook Center, plan to construct a shed on the church grounds. People connected with the project participated in groun...

Update: This article has been updated with the time and location of the state tourney semifinals. Not much separated the Newtown and Enfield high school field hockey teams in the Class L field hockey rankings. But it took a 130-mile round trip e...

Newtown High School’s girls’ soccer team’s hopes of following up its conference championship with a state title ended in the Class LL State Tournament quarterfinals. Top-seeded and host Glastonbury blanked the No. 8 Nighthawks 2-0 on November 9. The ...

Newtown High School’s football team whitewashed the host New Milford Green Wave 55-0 in the annual Boot Game, on a rainy November 9 night. It was a hat-trick of a team performance as the Nighthawks scored on offense, defense, and special teams. Newto...

BROOKFIELD — Closing out the impressive Brookfield Theater for the Arts 2018 season is a fetching bit of farce. Michael McKeever’s Suite Surrender, well directed by Marilyn Olsen, opened last Friday to a fully satisfied audience. Dueling divas Claudi...