Log In

Newtown’s Special Education Parent Teacher Organization (SEPTO) held its first meeting on October 18 at Newtown High School’s Lecture Hall, and SEPTO President Jennifer Strychalsky said, “It went really well.” The group has already scheduled its seco...

Participating in an “Adolescent Health and School Start Times: Science and Strategies” workshop at Trinity College in Hartford on October 16 gave Board of Education Chair Michelle Embree Ku, Newtown High School Assistant Principal David Roach, and NH...

Continuing to celebrate Sandy Hook, the Sandy Hook Organization for Prosperity (SHOP) will host a new 21-and-over event this weekend: the inaugural Boos and Booze Halloween Pub Crawl & Costume Contest. The special event is being done in collaboration...

St Rose of Lima Church hosted a film screening of Lessons from a School Shooting: Notes from Dunblane and a discussion, on October 22. A description on the film’s website, lessonsfromaschoolshooting.com, explains, “Following the Peabody Award-winning...

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, September 27: 7:29 am, unconscious/syncope; 10:23 am, sick/unknown; 2:0...

A special organizational meeting took place at the C.H. Booth Library last Thursday evening, when seven young women attended the open house of the all-girls Scouts BSA. Scout Master Dave Barrett tells me that all of the girls seemed “enthusiastic abo...

The Board of Education recently heard a number of reports on test results. At its meeting on September 18, it heard a report on the School Panorama 2018-19 Social-Emotional Survey; and at its meeting on October 16, it heard about the Smarter Balanced...

The Newtown High School Marching Band & Guard performed at the USBands competition at Southington High School on Saturday, October 20. The group scored 91.550 to place first in Group IV Open, narrowly outscoring Blackstone-Millville High School of Bl...