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Are You An OpZOmist? To the Editor: My name is Mackenzie Page, and I’m a 13-year-old eighth grader attending Newtown Middle School. Recently my close family friend, 10-year-old Zoe McMorran, was diagnosed with a very aggressive form of b...

St James Episcopal Danbury To Host Blessing Of The Animals DANBURY — St James Episcopal Church will host its annual community Blessing of the Animals on Sunday, October 2, at 3 pm. The special event will take place in the churchâ€&#...

Emergency 911 Dispatcher Training Video Photographed At EOC By Andrew Gorosko The town’s new Emergency Operations Center (EOC) at Fairfield Hills served as the backdrop for an instructional video being produced for the state government to...

Second Annual Firehouse Ride Benefits Hook & Ladder By Kendra Bobowick Streaks of chrome caught the sun as it broke through an overcast sky on September 25, where roughly 50 motorcycles rumbled down Main Street at 11 am for the 2011 Firehouse Ride & ...

Hawley Celebrates Its Summer Readers By Eliza Hallabeck Hawley Elementary School students gathered in the school’s gymnasium on Wednesday, September 21, for a schoolwide assembly that recognized students that read and handed in their read...

Newtown Friends Of Music Establish Music Scholarship Newtown Friends of Music has established a scholarship for a graduating high school senior who is pursuing the further study of music as a career, be it in solo performance, composition, orchestra...

Vendors Wanted for Annual Mom’s Night Out SOUTHBURY — The Board of Alef Bet Preschool is seeking an assortment of vendors to sell their products at its Sixth Annual Mom’s Night Out.  This successful and well-atte...

NHS To Hold ‘Financing College’ Presentation Newtown High School’s School counseling office is sponsoring an evening presentation, “Financing College,” Wednesday, October 5, at 7 pm, in the...

Fundraiser For Komen Foundation The Newtown High School field hockey team will play a special game on Wednesday, October 12. October is Play 4 The Cure Month, in which field hockey (and other competitive athletic teams at the middle school, high s...

Ethel M. Fowler Found Greatest Joy In Family Ethel M. Fowler, 87, of Norwich, wife of Lawrence J. Fowler, Sr, died September 21, at the William W. Backus Hospital. Born in Elizabeth, N.J., April 18, 1924, she was the daughter of Edna (Alle...