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While First Selectman Pat Llodra announced last week that the majority of post-12/14 events have already been scheduled and/or announced, she also hinted that there were two special events that were still coming while students and families were enjoy...

Joseph E. Yanzo, Jr, 71, of Newtown, widower of the late Elizabeth Rogers Maestro Yanzo, died peacefully on Sunday, June 30, surrounded by all of his children after a hard-fought battle with leukemia. Mr Yanzo was born in Bridgeport on July 21, 1941,...

A post by First Selectman Pat Llodra at OneNewtown.org suggests it is time for all residents to move “into a quiet period of rest, recuperation, and healing.” On Thursday, June 27, Mrs Llodra used her blog to announce that while countless offers have...

Summer thrums. Life is ascendant under the summer sun, endlessly cycling in little eddies cast up in the wake of successively larger cycles of seasons, planets, stars, and galaxies. Each cycle has its own frequency, its own back and forth, hither and...

Liz Carroll, the legendary Irish fiddler and composer, was having a very good week when I spoke with her. She had just got back from teaching at the O’Flaherty Irish Music Youth Camp in Texas; her hometown hockey team, the Chicago Blackhawks, had won...

James MacKerracher, 86, a longtime resident of Woodbury, died Thursday, June 27, at Masonicare in Newtown. He was the husband of Elizabeth (Aitcheson) MacKerracher. James was born February 26, 1927, in Waterbury, son of Ella (Danisavage) and Kenneth ...

SHERMAN — It’s probably been sixty years or so since I read the L.M. Montgomery books about that other lovable red-headed orphan named Anne. Our sons were never interested, and our granddaughters had other faves, but sitting through the current produ...

SHERMAN — It’s probably been sixty years or so since I read the L.M. Montgomery books about that other lovable red-headed orphan named Anne. Our sons were never interested, and our granddaughters had other faves, but sitting through the current produ...