Search
146591 results returned for search: ""
Published: May 21, 2016 at 12:00 AM
Local viewers of the Food Network program Chopped Junior had a great surprise waiting for them earlier this month. The season's second episode, which debuted May 3, featured a young cook from Sandy Hook. She did not make it too far into the e...
Published: May 21, 2016 at 12:00 AM
Members of Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Post 308 gathered on Thursday, May 19, joined by community residents to replace American flags at the graves of veterans buried in cemeteries across Newtown.
The annual tradition is done to honor departed ser...
Published: May 21, 2016 at 12:00 AM
Public Building & Site Commission Chairman Bob Mitchell updated the Board of Education at its meeting on Tuesday, May 17, on the Newtown High School auditorium renovation project and on the new Sandy Hook Elementary School project.SHES, Bonding Updat...
Published: May 21, 2016 at 12:00 AM
The Board of Education honored district staff members awarded the 2015-16 Profiles in Professionalism award at its meeting on Tuesday, May 17.'Above And Beyond'
Superintendent of Schools Joseph V. Erardi, Jr, said the 2015-16 Profiles of Professiona...
Published: May 21, 2016 at 12:00 AM
Sometime before the first full week of June, residents on Violette Road in Hawleyville will be restricted from using the northern end of the short avenue that connects Pocono Road to Mt Pleasant Road.
Newtown Public Works Director Fred Hurley...
Published: May 21, 2016 at 12:00 AM
Newtown officials who were anticipating dealing with about $400,000 in budgetary red ink because of changes to state revenue formulas are now seeing figures nudge into the black, thanks to an eleventh-hour special session modification in a motor vehi...
Published: May 21, 2016 at 12:00 AM
The Connecticut Freedom of Information Commission (FOIC) has sent a preliminary ruling in the cases of two Newtown complainants back to the commission's hearing officer for what was described as a request for further clarification of several points i...
Published: May 21, 2016 at 12:00 AM
Despite multiple comeback efforts, Newtown High School's baseball team came up short in a 7-5 defeat to visiting New Fairfield, in the South-West Conference tournament quarterfinals on May 21.
The Nighthawks, who were 15-5 overall and 11-2 in SWC pla...
Published: May 20, 2016 at 12:00 AM
I found a dead bluebird in a nest box by the barn. She lay intact, her head and neck crooked in the corner of the box where she died. Cool blue. A bit of sky enclosed in a pine box.Those Of The Forest, wildlife biologist Wallace Byron Grange describe...
Published: May 20, 2016 at 12:00 AM
Come 5 am this Sunday, hundreds of bleary-eyed people will be packing up booths, overnight supplies, games, and sneakers and rubbing their tired tootsies as they pour out of NYA Sports & Fitness Center at Fairfield Hills. If they look like weary warr...
