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Published: Feb 09, 2017 at 12:00 AM
The Town of Newtown used its CodeRED system this morning, telling town employees who do not need to be working during Winter Storm Niko to stay put.
Emergency Communications Director Maureen Will recorded the message, which was distributed to all res...
Published: Feb 09, 2017 at 12:00 AM
Police Commission members, in their role as the local traffic authority, this week spoke favorably about a planning study they reviewed on measures to improve conditions for pedestrians along the section of Main Street near the historic flagpole inte...
Published: Feb 09, 2017 at 12:00 AM
The Society of Creative Arts of Newtown (SCAN) is presenting its annual "Color In Winter Art Show & Sale" at Newtown Municipal Center. The public is invited to visit the exhibition, being presented in the building's main corridor, weekdays through Ma...
Published: Feb 09, 2017 at 12:00 AM
William J. Ghent, Jr, 86, of Sandy Hook, died February 6 after a brief illness in Danbury Hospital with his family by his side. Born on April 30, 1930, in Portland, Conn., he was the 12th child to the late Gertrude Ghent and William J. Ghent, Sr.
He ...
Published: Feb 09, 2017 at 12:00 AM
A mid-December 2016 survey by InformCT of 510 state residents indicated support for regionalization of some services, with survey results indicating that animal control and educational services can also be effectively regionalized.
That small survey ...
Published: Feb 08, 2017 at 12:00 AM
What began with a phone call and impromptu ski lesson in 1992 has led to 25 years of service to the blind, disabled, and wounded veterans by Sandy Hook-based LOF Adaptive Skiers. "A lot has happened in 25 years and 99 percent has been good," LOF Foun...
Published: Feb 08, 2017 at 12:00 AM
A Winter Storm Warning has been issued by the National Weather Service (NWS) for the entire state, to be in effect from midnight Wednesday, February 8, through 6 pm Thursday, February 9.Newtown Public Schools announced late Wednesday afternoon that s...
Published: Feb 08, 2017 at 12:00 AM
Newtown High School's gymnastics team had three competitions this past week, and placed first in two of them. The Nighthawks went to New Milford High School to take on the host Green Wave and Oxford on February 2 and came in third; defeated visiting ...
Published: Feb 08, 2017 at 12:00 AM
Alexander C. Aliapoulios, 91, of Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, Fla., died peacefully February 6 at Maplewood in Newtown, with his loving wife of 68 years, Constance "Connie," by his side. He was born in Manchester, N.H., on October 6, 1925, and was a longti...
Published: Feb 08, 2017 at 12:00 AM
Oscar Berendsohn, 92, a resident of Newtown since 1968, died February 7. Born June 26, 1924, in the small northern-German village of Altenwerder, Mr Berendsohn, his siblings, and his parents, Mabel and Paul, were forced out of their native land by th...
