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Middle Gate Elementary School PTA President Debbie DeBlasi announced a new program called "Friends of the Middle Gate Library" that is working to raise money for the school library through a mural, which is being overseen by school parent Bridget Har...

Care packages and personalized notes and cards have been crafted and collected, and sent to servicemen and women overseas through the local Valentines For Troops effort. Each year the Valentines for Troops program, offered through the Veterans of For...

The mouthwatering aroma of chocolate was in the air at the C.H. Booth Library as teen chefs participated in the Chocolate Test Kitchen on Monday, February 13. The sixth through eighth graders who signed up for the program had the opportunity to creat...

A brief public hearing is planned for Tuesday, February 21, from 7:15 to 7:30 pm, to hear from residents ahead of the town applying for an $800,000 Small Cities Block Grant to underwrite modernization and energy conservation improvements at Nunnawauk...

Subaru vs Mercedes At about 3:57 pm on February 6, motorist Yan Chau-Leung, 50, of Danbury, was driving a 2006 Mercedes-Benz S-430 sedan northward on Main Street, as motorist John Knaggs, 52, of Newtown, who was driving a 2010 Subaru Forester, w...

To the Editor:Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse in Bremen, Germany (formerly Prussia). My grandfather, Albert Joseph Bialek, came to the United States from Poland (Galicia) in 1910. Per the Ellis Island website, he boarded the ship He had just completed his...

To the Editor: Dear Newtown voters, I have a challenge for you. Over the next two weeks, I implore you to read and watch daily national news from two national sources that you do not usually follow. Branch out beyond the familiar cable channels that ...

To the Editor: I am writing as both the president of the Greater Newtown/Danbury Chapter of Hadassah, and as a proud Jewish mother of two wonderful Jewish children. I was horrified by the hate crime that happened in our town in January. People often ...

At about 2:40 pm on Thursday, February 16, Newtown police arrested the proprietor of a package store, who on the night of January 21 allegedly falsely reported to police that an armed robbery had occurred at Rooster Wines & Liquors at 113 South Main ...