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Domination of South-West Conference opponents continues, but Newtown High School's boys' lacrosse team is perhaps gleaning more from its setbacks early on this spring. Newtown's only documented takeaway from its first two of three games against tough...

Inspired by his nephew fighting a rare form of leukemia, and a longtime friend fighting throat cancer, Newtown's Michael Floros decided to join the Dana Farber Marathon Challenge, whose participants raise at least $5000 for cancer research, while sec...

Barbara Bush, the snowy-haired first lady and mother of a president whose plainspoken manner and utter lack of pretense made her more popular at times than her husband, President George H.W. Bush, died Tuesday, a family spokesman said. She was 92.Ass...

Newtown High School's girls' golf team won its first match of the season. The Nighthawks went to Fairfield's Fairchild Wheeler Golf Course and defeated Notre Dame-Fairfield on April 17. The Nighthawks shot 215, and the Lancers a 263. Sarah Houle led ...

To the Editor: Connecticut has set an example for the nation in providing affordable health care for its residents. Access HealthCT, our health care exchange under the Affordable Care Act, is the most efficient and successful state-level health insur...

To The Editor: My husband and I plan on attending the tenth annual march sponsored by Mothers United Against Violence this Saturday, April 21, in Hartford. This is a wonderful opportunity for anyone who promotes gun commonsense and wants to help stre...

As if four games in as many days - necessitated by early-season weather-related postponements - wasn't enough, a pair of these Newtown High School softball contests went into extra innings this past week. The Nighthawks had to wait ten days for a mak...

Newtown High School's girls' tennis team defeated visiting New Milford 6-1 on April 11, and fell 4-3 to host Joel Barlow of Redding on April 17. The boys had one match this past week and blanked host New Milford 7-0, on April 12. For the girls' squad...

Newtown High School's girls' lacrosse team, in consecutive games, defeated a pair of South-West Conference foes by identical 18-7 scores, first defeating visiting Bethel, at Treadwell Park on April 11, then besting host Brookfield the next day. The d...

On Monday, April 23, a construction clock will start ticking, signaling the official start of a 222-day period during which workers will reconfigure the widely-offset intersection of Church Hill Road (US Route 6), Edmond Road, and Commerce Road, crea...