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Published: Feb 19, 2016 at 12:00 AM
Residents attending a February 18 Board of Finance public hearing on the overall budget proposed for the 2016-17 fiscal year raised a host of issues about the spending plan, with most of the comments focusing on proposed education spending.A detailed...
Published: Feb 18, 2016 at 12:00 AM
High winds on a rainy Tuesday afternoon resulted in six emergency calls to the town after utility lines came down under the weight of fallen tree limbs, officials said.
Firefighters from three of the town's five volunteer fire companies responded to ...
Published: Feb 18, 2016 at 12:00 AM
Newtown High School's boys' swimming and diving team posted a 99-73 win over host Joel Barlow of Redding, at Western Connecticut State University in Danbury, on February 16. Top Newtown results are as follows:
200 yard medley relay: 1. Tommy Horan, C...
Published: Feb 18, 2016 at 12:00 AM
Truck Crash
Police report that motorist Cody Cahill, 23, of 44 Tomahawk Trail was driving a 2003 Dodge 2500 pickup truck eastward on Riverside Road, east of its intersection with Timber Mill Road, at about 2:33 am on February 14, when while nego...
Published: Feb 18, 2016 at 12:00 AM
Audrey (Burr) Hydar, 80, an 18-year resident of Woodbury and formerly a 15-year resident of Newtown, died February 12 at the Torrington Health and Rehabilitation Center. She was born on February 26, 1935, in Piscataway, N.J., the daughter of the late...
Published: Feb 18, 2016 at 12:00 AM
There is an unspoken principle that characterizes the spirit and culture of Newtown that the community applies pretty much across the board from its youth athletic fields to its board rooms: If you are going to do something, do it well. It is an appr...
Published: Feb 18, 2016 at 12:00 AM
Flagpole Photographers Camera Club's most recent event, a free "Know Your Camera" workshop on February 11, attracted many camera novices and photography enthusiasts.
Linda Lubinsky started off the evening with a short lecture about camera basics that...
Published: Feb 18, 2016 at 12:00 AM
Newtown High School's gymnastics team recorded its highest score of the season, 130.100, in a meet at New Milford on February 17, and the NHS hockey team stretched its winning streak to four with a 2-0 blanking of visiting Shepaug-Litchfield, at Danb...
Published: Feb 18, 2016 at 12:00 AM
The radio dispatchers at the Newtown Emergency Communications Center at Town Hall South, 3 Main Street, report the following fire calls and the responders: Thursday, February 11: 4:55 pm, odor of gas indoors, 3 Glover Avenue, Hook & Ladder an...
Published: Feb 18, 2016 at 12:00 AM
Katie Elkins and Felix Summ, both of Newtown, recently received honors in the Connecticut Regional Scholastic Art Awards. Held at the University of Hartford on January 31, the annual event is a "high quality level, professionally juried event which r...
