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A Sensible Solution To the Editor: Good for Ed Miklaszewski’s recommendation that there be a police officer directing traffic at the flagpole during rush hour [“Sandy Hook Resident Urges Flagpole Traffic Improvements,â€&#...

To the Editor: Paul Lundquist listens to the many voices of Newtown. His aim is to hear the disparate opinions about the strengths and needs of Newtown and then to play a role in coalescing these to create a vision for the future of our town. Paul h...

Marching Through Challenges To The Editor:  Thank you Newtown for your support and participation in this year’s Labor Day Parade. The rescheduling of the parade brought challenges that we have never faced. In the past parades we have had...

A Visit To Manhattan Cements A Newtown Link To The 9/11 Memorial The Briscoe family of Newtown visited The National September 11 Memorial on Saturday, September 17.  It was an important visit not only because the family was one of the first to se...

Kenneth Marshall Smith Pharmacist For Fifty Years Kenneth Marshall Smith, 77, formally of Newtown, died peacefully at home in Arkansas, August 31, with his wife and daughter nearby. He was born January 23, 1934, in Milford, to Blanch Turn...

Passport To Sandy Hook, A Trip To Remember By Eliza Hallabeck Many passports were stamped in Sandy Hook this past Saturday, October 8, for the inaugural Passport To Sandy Hook event. Music could be heard downstream at demitasse cafe as different ban...

Evelyn C. McCarthy Hudak Loving Mother And Grandmother Evelyn C. McCarthy Hudak, 82, of Stratford, died at her home, October 6. She was born in New York City to Helen and Michael Cosgrove. Two beloved daughters, Carol Bartek of Sandy Hook and E...

To the Editor: I am Bernard McLoughlin, a police commissioner in North Haven, and the immediate past chairman of the Board of the Police Commissioners Association of Connecticut. I am writing this letter in support of Joel Faxon’s candida...

Fifty States, Fifty Bucks, Fifty Weeks: The Odyssey Begins By Nancy K. Crevier Late this summer, 25-year-old Charles Emmett Milbank Fulkerson, a 2004 graduate of Newtown High School with a degree in sociology from Ithaca College, put on the new $600 ...

Andrew Joseph Simso, Jr Master Builder Andrew (Cotter) Joseph Simso, Jr, 91, of Rowayton and Norwalk since 1943, died October 8. He was born on November 27, 1919, in Minneapolis, Minn., where he was a star basketball player and also lettered in...