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Middle Gate Elementary School held its end of the year fourth grade awards assembly on the last day of the 2017-18 school year, June 26. The event highlighted student achievement from the year, and representatives of American Legion Post 202 honored ...

NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. - For the second time in recent years, Newtown photographer Darrell Harrington took off from Newtown the morning of June 9 and landed in the photo pit at the Rhode Island National Guard Open House and Air Show at Quonset State A...

Newtown Parks & Recreation Assistant Director of Recreation Rose Ann Reggiano is excited for the upcoming summer weeks.More information about the day camps is available on the Newtown Parks & Recreation website, .newtown-ct.gov Parks & Recreation da...

The Board of Education celebrated the Newtown Public Schools 2018-19 Paraeducator of the Year and its 2018-19 Teacher of the Year at its meeting on June 20. Hawley Elementary School paraeducator Linda Biscoe was announced as the Paraeducator of the Y...

The 6th Annual Pony Rides for Jessica Rekos event took place June 30, at the 2nd company Governor's Horse Guard at Fairfield Hills, the third time that the event had been rescheduled. Previous dates were postponed due to weather conditions; but despi...

Martha Wright, 78, of Newtown, died June 25, at Yale Hospital, following a decade-long fight with scleroderma induced pulmonary arterial hypertension. She was born in Knoxville, Tenn., and attended schools in Knoxville and the University of Tennessee...

July 9, 1993 Treadwell Pool Loses Its Race With The Heat. Once Treadwell pool is open - possible July 9 - the Parks and Recreation Department intends to expand the hours of operation of the town's two pools. "We hope that we can at least get a t...

Ninety-seven year old Newtown resident Dorothea LaBelle clearly recalls her desire to defeat the Germans as a young woman, and how she rushed to enlist in the United States Naval Reserve (Women's Reserve), better known as the WAVES, for the Women Acc...

Mariam Azeez, a youth and member of the Al Hedaya Islamic Center, has written a book with Terry Murphy and Deborah Clarke about the power of kindness and compassion called Soulful Sydney Explores Diversity.Look for an interview with the authors in ne...