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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...

Stephen J. Mygodney, 92, of Fairfield, beloved husband of Gertrude Preg Mygodney, died peacefully April 15. Born January 5, 1926, and raised in Westport, he was the son of the late John and Anastasia Guida Mygodney. He lived in Westport and Fairfield...

HARTFORD (AP) - The families of two children slain in the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre have filed lawsuits against right-wing radio host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones for claiming the shooting in Connecticut did not happen. Neil Heslin,...

To the Editor: As we ponder this new budget, it seems relevant that seniors in bordering towns like Ridgefield, Redding, Brookfield, New Milford, and other municipalities are planning to vote against approving their budgets for obvious reasons. It se...

It may be only about a third of the way through the season, but the April 16 boys' volleyball match between Newtown High School and host Joel Barlow had the feeling of a playoff battle. This very well may be a preview of the South-West Conference cha...

To the Editor: The fifth anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombing saddens me even more when I realize that in the 1,800 days since that tragedy, literally millions of people have "violated" 8-year-old victim Martin Richard's plaintive poster plea c...