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Newtown Allies for Change (NAFC) acknowledges Nicole Powers of Blue Sky Designs for Allyship in Action. Each month, NAFC recognizes community members whose actions embody what it means to be an ally to BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color). ...

Update: Sunday's rescheduled game with Masuk has been moved to a 2 pm start. After lightning flashes halted play in the fifth inning of a scoreless visit to Masuk of Monroe on May 8 Newtown High School’s softball team brought the thunder (with t...

How do you carry a 1-0 lead into the fifth inning only to lose that same game 1-0? Seems impossible, right? Well — it happened. Newtown High School’s baseball team led host Masuk of Monroe 1-0 in a May 8 game when lighting halted play. Newtown was on...

Newtown High School’s boys’ volleyball team visited the defending South-West Conference Champion Joel Barlow of Redding Falcons on May 7. The Nighthawks fell in three sets to the Falcons, whom they had defeated in five sets in late April. Then came a...

Newtown High School’s girls’ lacrosse team scored 18 goals on consecutive nights — the Nighthawks blanked visiting Notre Dame Prep of Fairfield 18-0 in a rescheduled game on May 7, then followed up with an 18-2 win over visiting Bethel on Senior Nigh...

Newtown High School’s girls’ tennis team had a pair of matches on May 10, defeating Brookfield 5-2 and falling to Weston 7-0, then beat Notre Dame Prep of Fairfield 6-1 on May 12 and topped Immaculate of Danbury 4-3 on May 13. Winners against Notre D...

To the Editor: About a month ago, I went to the Police Department because I was having a problem. The officer said, “go home and I will follow you in a few minutes. What he didn’t tell me was he sent an officer in their car to my dead end narrow road...

To the Editor: I look forward to the month of May every year. Sure the weather is getting nice, but May also marks a big time of transition for the flagpole in the center of our town. Last Saturday morning, as the rain was letting up, more than a doz...

To the Editor: I am sharing the latest new CT tax proposals from the Governor and the Democrats in Finance, Revenue and Bonding Committee: New 2% tax Capital Gains, Property tax credit removed with a scheduled expansion, tax for Ride share Increase i...

To the Editor: Last week was Teacher Appreciation Week and I hope that our Newtown teachers felt more valued than usual through the efforts of our Board, their administrators, the parents, their students, and of course, the voters who recently suppor...