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Senior services for Newtown seniors are available at the Multipurpose Building on Riverside Road in Sandy Hook. The Senior Center is under the auspices of the Commission on Aging. The center is run by Senior Services Director Marilyn Place. For infor...

Pub 25 Outlasts Sunoco In Softball Finale Newtown’s Pub 25 sponsored Men’s Softball League team defeated Sunoco to win the championship at Treadwell Park on September 20. Pub 25 topped Big Budda 23-9 in the loser’s...

Building Commission Hands Over High School Expansion To Town By John Voket The Public Building and Site Commission voted unanimously September 25 to turn the Newtown High School expansion project over to the town, more than a year after students beg...

NHS Cross Country— Gamble Pays Off For Newtown Runners Jake Feinstein again led the field, pacing 109 runners in Newtown High School’s boys’ cross country meet at Reed School on Tuesday. It was a Gamble â€&#x9...

Jason Zavala and Shannon Sauer Shannon Elizabeth Sauer, daughter of Marilyn Matern of Newtown, will marry Jason Adam Zavala this weekend. The two met in Kentucky while Shannon was in graduate school. They have adopted a dog named Andre and a cat...

Coping With Loss Reverend Karen S. Judd, an ordained interfaith minister and a licensed clinical social worker, has integrated her two professional backgrounds to create a community ministry. On Wednesday, October 3, at noon, at C.H. Booth Library, s...

Experienced Publicist To Address Working Women’s Forum Barbara Branagan-Mitchell, director of Branagan Communications Consultants LLC (BCC) (www.branagancommunications.com) in New Milford, a public relations, publicity placement, marketi...

Church Fair In Redding This Weekend REDDING — Members of the First Church of Christ, Congregational are hoping for clear skies and steady crowds on Saturday, September 29, for the 31st annual Arts & Crafts Fair on the Redding Green. The f...

Leon Lee Barkman Leon Barkman, of Newtown, died September 22, on the Autumnal Equinox, after a brief illness with pneumonia. He was born in Port Jervis, N.Y. Mr Barkman was a biology professor at Housatonic Community College for 30 years. His educat...

School Board Hears Newtown High School Testing Report By Eliza Hallabeck Over the last five years at Newtown High School a consistent effort has been made to improve instructional practices, as NHS Principal Charles Dumais told the Board of Education...