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Newtown High School softball player Bri Pellicone collected her 100th career base hit as a Nighthawk during the home opener, on April 1. That was a nice milestone and all, but the contact she made on five foul balls followed by a pitch she did not sw...

The Newtown High School girls’ track and field team is looking for a South-West Conference Championship trifecta of sorts. The Nighthawks won last year’s spring outdoor title and then much of the same lineup of athletes took home the winter indoor ti...

“I never want to hear the words ‘value engineering’ again,” Community Center Director Matt Ariniello told the Board of Selectmen on an April 1 meeting while reporting that the pool deck in the Aquatics Center has been developing fissures, and the poo...

The 2024 Newtown Lions Club Great Pootatuck River Duck Race will be held Saturday, June 8, from 11 am until 3 pm in Sandy Hook Center. The activities will be centered around Heritage Park, behind Foundry Kitchen & Tavern and Sandy Hook Café at 7 Glen...

The defending South-West Conference Champion Newtown High School boys’ track and field team is building for the future while looking to improve along the way and find some success, including at the South-West Conference Championship, this spring. The...

The Flagpole Photographers Camera Club welcomes photographers of all levels to their April events, which will open with “Light Painting Cars & Still Life” presented by Shiv Verma on Thursday, April 11, at 7:30 pm, virtually and in person at Newtown S...

UPDATE (Wednesday, April 17, 2024): Two Orchestra Nexus performances planned at Trinity Episcopal Church for this weekend and next have been postponed. * * * * * Trinity Episcopal Church will host two special performances this month by Or...

Coming off a campaign in which it lost only to perennial powerhouse and South-West Conference champion Weston, the Newtown High School boys’ tennis team could be in for a title run of its own. Nighthawk Coach Shawn Tierney’s lineup has 12 members led...

The defending South-West Conference champions have a new look. Newtown High School’s girls’ tennis team lost nine players from last year’s title squad, notably the top two singles standouts. As a result, Coach Maureen Maher and company will look to t...

The Town & Country Garden Club of Newtown will host Edward Bahr, owner of Mike’s Beehives in Torrington, on Wednesday, April 10, at 7 pm, at Newtown Senior Center, 8 Simpson Street. Bahr has had a passion for honeybees since he was five years old. Af...