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Fairfield County Giving Day continued to grow with its fourth annual 24-hour period of fundraising activity. The mission of the event is to raise as much money as possible for nonprofit organizations, done primarily through online donations. Groups a...

To the Editor: Families United in Newtown (FUN), a community recreational program for families in our area with special needs children, teens, and adults, sponsored their 5th Annual Benefit Concert Saturday, March 4, in the beautiful Congregational C...

A team record ten Newtown youth wrestlers competed at Salem High School in Massachusetts in the 2017 Youth New England Championships, on March 11. Just like the Newtown High School team, the youth program tested its mettle against the best wrestlers ...

Less than a week away from the first day of spring, Blizzard Stella blew in before dawn on Tuesday, March 14, her wind and snow covering the landscape by sunrise. Residents woke to an icy precipitation whipping sideways and continuing through early a...

To the Editor:Newtown was being screened nearby. A few phone calls and I was there. Since I recently relocated from my Newtown home of 40-plus years, you can imagine my feelings.Newtown is the result of a few years of intense preparation and time spe...

Michele Elizabeth Della Gioia Torok, 53, of Shelton died March 8, surrounded by her loving family at Yale New Haven Hospital. She was born in Bridgeport on February 6, 1964, to the late Mary (Kelly) and Joseph Della Gioia and had been a lifelong area...

Marianne June Huebenthal-Zeifman of Sandy Hook died March 10. Born on June 4, 1931, she was the daughter of Ivy and Herbert Brice of Surrey, England. Her brother, John Brice of Devon, England; her four children, Vivien Ciavara of Newtown, Tim Huebent...

To the Editor:hrra.org. As Ban Ki-moon, the former secretary general of the UN, said, "We are using resources as if we had two planets, not one. There can be no 'plan B' because there is no 'planet B.'" It isn't often that we think about what happens...

William B. Kolesar of Ocala, Fla., died in his sleep at home on March 10. He and his wife, Milda Carlson Kolesar, lived in Newtown for 50 years before moving to Ocala in 2013. Mr Kolesar was a past member of the Dodgingtown Volunteer Fire Co., a long...

The Fourth Annual First Selectman's Game, a basketball contest between Newtown's and Monroe's seventh/eighth grade boys' basketball league champions, will take place at Newtown High School, 12 Berkshire Road in Sandy Hook, on Thursday, March 16, begi...