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Published: Jan 09, 2015 at 12:00 AM
This story has been updated to reflect a later decision by the school district.
All Newtown Public Schools will be closed Friday, January 9, due to deteriorating weather conditions.
The decision was announced around 7:30 am following an earlier ...
Published: Jan 09, 2015 at 12:00 AM
Newtown’s Charter Revision Commission was still busily working through the holidays and into the New Year, but most of the commissioners’ efforts were focused in subcommittees, according to Chairman Jeff Capeci.
“We’ve got a lot of irons in the fire,...
Published: Jan 09, 2015 at 12:00 AM
The Grand Budapest Hotel, a film that many are calling one of the best films released in 2014, will be the next film offered at Edmond Town Hall Theatre.
The film will be screened daily, January 9-15.
On Saturday, January 10, the 7 pm screening w...
Published: Jan 09, 2015 at 12:00 AM
Before it was a television channel, the word “nickelodeon” meant a performance that cost a nickel: juke box, player piano, and especially a movie theater. On Monday, January 12, at 7:30 pm, Town Historian Daniel Cruson will give his annual lecture, t...
Published: Jan 09, 2015 at 12:00 AM
Occupation: I am the owner of Replay Sports, which relocated this past year to 731 Main Street in Monroe. I grew from the 800-square-foot space I had for four years in Newtown, on South Main Street, to 3,200 square feet. I sell used and new equip...
Published: Jan 09, 2015 at 12:00 AM
AC Connecticut, the state’s only Premier Development League (PDL) soccer team, will hold its first round of open tryouts for the 2015 season, from noon to 2 pm on Friday, January 16, at NYA Sports & Fitness Center, 4 Primrose Street.
There is a $35 t...
Published: Jan 09, 2015 at 12:00 AM
Reckless Driving
After learning that Newtown Police held a warrant for his arrest, Brian Riguzzi, 39, of Wappingers Falls, N.Y., turned himself over to police at the police station about 12:30 pm on January 3 and was charged with reckless drivin...
Published: Jan 09, 2015 at 12:00 AM
Freezing cold temperatures throughout the past week may cause some to ponder a move south, or to at least anxiously anticipate the warmth of spring.
But that’s not the case for hockey players and figure skaters who welcomed, and took advantage of, th...
Published: Jan 09, 2015 at 12:00 AM
To Newtowners, it’s snow, sleet, and slush. But to local officials and Highway Department crews slogging through it with plows, sand, and salt, these passing winter fronts are classified as “events.”
So with six winter season events under their belt,...
Published: Jan 09, 2015 at 12:00 AM
Attention young musicians, poets, singers, magicians, and other entertainers: the monthly Saturday Night Open Mic, for youth in grades 5-12, will return Saturday, January 17, from 7:30 to 9:15 pm. The event takes place in The Great Room at Newtown Co...
