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Awards And Decorations— Town Police Honored For Public Service By Andrew Gorosko To honor the many town police officers whose performance in the field of law enforcement has been deemed exemplary, the Newtown Police Department has provide...

NYFS Welcomes Newtown Savings Bank As Holiday Festival Title Sponsor By Nancy K. Crevier The 27th Annual Holiday Festival to benefit Newtown Youth & Family Services (NYFS) will return Sunday, December 2, with Newtown Savings Bank as its title sponso...

Janice Wonson Stratton Janice Wonson Stratton, 87, a longtime resident of Stamford, died November 2, at home, with her family by her side. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., March 6, 1925, she was the daughter of Benjamin and Evelyn Wonson Butterworth of New Ca...

NMS Names October ‘Shout Out’ Students Continuing its “Shout Out” recognition program, Newtown Middle School named its October students of the month on Monday, November 5, and gathered the students toge...

Paintball Vandals On October 17, police received a complaint from an individual who reported witnessing someone shooting yellow and orange paintballs at a house and unoccupied vehicle on Fleetwood Avenue. The suspect vehicle was described as pos...

 Annual Turkey Trot Set For Thanksgiving Morning The 3rd Annual Newtown Turkey Trot 5K race, sponsored by Newtown Savings Bank and benefiting the Cyrenius H. Booth Library, will kick off at 7:45 am on Thanksgiving morning, November 22. The race begi...

Llodra Sharply Criticizes CL&P Storm Response By John Voket Sitting at her desk watching a late fall nor’easter swirl huge, heavy flakes of snow around Newtown Municipal Center, First Selectman Pat Llodra still struggles to restrain her f...

Guard Is ‘Best In New England’— NHS Marching Band & Guard Named State Champs By Eliza Hallabeck The Newtown High School Marching Band & Guard earned the title of State Champions and the color guard took the title o...

LUNCH MENU WEEK OF November 12 – 16     reed intermediate school   MONDAY, November 12 Orange stir fry chicken with vegetables, fried rice, crunchy Asian topping, broccoli, milk   TUESDAY, ...

Here’s a tasty tidbit of information: Did you know that Julia Child, chef and author of Mastering the Art of French Cooking, was a cat lover? She called her cats “poussiequettes,” and her mantra was, “U...