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Patricia Mary Scharr, 71, of Danbury, died peacefully October 29, after a long illness. Her siblings, Grace Scharr McEnaney of Newtown; Margaret M. Sagarese; Frederick Scharr; and Joseph Scharr; and cherished friends survive her. Ms Scharr graduated ...

Violet Farkasdi Csengery, 91, of Newtown, died October 27. She was born in Hungary, January 20, 1927, and was the daughter of the late Sandor and Anna Majsa Farkasdi. She later came to the United States, where she met her late husband, Ernest Csenger...

Jean Elizabeth Chandler, 74, died October 24, at Glen Hill Nursing Center in Danbury. She was born July 29, 1944, in Philadelphia, Penn., and was the daughter of the late Robert and Elizabeth Robin McGhee. Ms Chandler worked most recently at JoAnn Fa...

This year marks the Ninth Annual Great Pumpkin Challenge on Main Street, which will become a hotbed of trick-or-treating on Halloween night. In 2010, Mackenzie Page of Main Street [naviga:u]started the event to raise money for the Hole In The Wall Ga...

Newtown High School’s girls’ volleyball team outlasted host Joel Barlow of Redding in a hard-fought five-game match on October 24, handing the six-time South-West Conference champion Falcons their first loss of the campaign in the process. The Nighth...

The third-seeded Newtown High School field hockey team dropped a hard-fought 2-1 decision to second-seeded and host Immaculate of Danbury in the South-West Conference Tournament semifinals, on October 29. Immaculate, which had been upset by Newtown i...

James David Rancourt, 66, died October 18, at Danbury Regional Hospice and Palliative Care Center, after battling pancreatic cancer for many years. He was born in Bridgeport on January 27, 1952, to Irene Macey Rancourt and Kenneth N. Rancourt. He gra...

State police said they have traced to Newtown an industrial vehicle they believe was involved in a fatal hit-and-run accident in Bridgeport on the night of October 25, in which a 54-year-old Bridgeport woman was killed. Pedestrian Maria Mendoza-Roble...

The top-seeded Newtown High School's girls' soccer team defeated No. 8 Joel Barlow of Redding 3-0 in the South-West Conference Tournament quarterfinals, at Blue and Gold Stadium — proving its ability to step it up during big games. Newtown maintained...

Flags have been lowered across the country to memorialize the most recent victims of a mass shooting incident. President Donald J. Trump on Saturday evening issued a proclamation ordering American flags to be lowered to half-staff to honor the 11 peo...