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Published: Apr 04, 2018 at 12:00 AM
To the Editor:
I am proud to live in the state with the steepest decline in violent crime of any state in the nation. Since Connecticut enacted tougher gun regulations in January of 2013, after the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, gun m...
Published: Apr 04, 2018 at 12:00 AM
To the Editor:
I am saddened that a cloud of disappointment and criticism about judgment hangs over Elizabeth Esty as she comes to the end of her service in Congress. There is no doubt in my mind that she erred; that she did not take the right action...
Published: Apr 04, 2018 at 12:00 AM
The Board of Education set its sights on June at its meeting on April 3 and voted to approve both graduation dates for Newtown High School and Newtown Middle School, along with setting a procedure for the end of the school year in response to the num...
Published: Apr 04, 2018 at 12:00 AM
Newtown High School's Kyle Roche and Ridgefield's Alex Price each battled on the mound in the baseball season opener, in Newtown, on Saturday, March 31. In the end, Ridgefield came away with a 2-1 victory.
Roche delivered 5.2 innings of four-hit ball...
Published: Apr 04, 2018 at 12:00 AM
Winter's recent reminder that Mother Nature, not the calendar, really decides what season it is may not have been welcomed by many who had already had enough winter wonderland for the year. For members of the Winterset Ski Club, though, the m...
Published: Apr 03, 2018 at 12:00 AM
Newtown High School's girls' lacrosse team, coming off its return to South-West Conference prominence with a Division I SWC championship, will look to be in contention to repeat this spring and make a run in the state playoffs. The Nighthawks, led by...
Published: Apr 03, 2018 at 12:00 AM
Coming off a season in which it was dethroned as South-West Conference champions in an SWC Division I tournament semifinal-round loss to New Fairfield, Newtown High School's boys' lacrosse team is striving to get back to the pinnacle.
"We want to win...
Published: Apr 02, 2018 at 12:00 AM
Due to the weather on Monday, April 2, the planned Newtown High School Gala Concert to dedicate the newly renovated auditorium has been canceled indefinitely. Les Miserables, School Edition, which was staged over the weekend of March 23-25.The Newtow...
Published: Apr 02, 2018 at 12:00 AM
John F. Kennedy is known as one of our most exciting presidents, and one that brought new breath and energy to the country. Newtown Historical Society, in conjunction with the C.H. Booth Library, will examine Kennedy's administration in a program on ...
Published: Apr 02, 2018 at 12:00 AM
The AIR Fine Art Gallery at Avance Day Spa welcomes spring with its new show, "Spring is in the AIR."
Light, bright, and breezy, the paintings express the sunny disposition of the season. Featured artists are Jeanne Eleck, Donna Kindel, Ron Knor, Ali...