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The Right Flash Set-Up For The Best Photo, May 19 At Booth Library Tom Cuchara of The New Haven Camera Club will present a program on flash photography during the next meeting of  Flagpole Photographers. The group will meeting on Thursday, May 19, a...

Newtown Bridle Lands Association Holding Open Meeting On May 17 The Newtown Bridle Lands Association (NBLA) will have an open meeting on Tuesday, May 17 at 7:30 pm in the lower level of the Newtown Meeting House across from the Flag Pole on Main St...

NHS Girls’ Track Team Sweeps Competition By Anna Hodge There was a winning spirit in the air at Newtown High School’s girls’ track and field team’s Senior Night on May 10. The Nighthawks swept the comp...

Individual Principles Or Political Parties? To the Editor: Whether on a national or local level, political parties automatically create a separation of political, social, economic, and philosophical thought. Each party establishing for its members, ...

Things To Consider To the Editor: A group of concerned citizens, including Pat Bailey, Marcia Cavanaugh, Nancy Kennedy, Carol Mattegat, Millie Anderson, Barbara Krausz, and myself, asks the community to consider problems we face before attempting ano...

Why The New Approach? To the Editor: We need a new approach to staffing [at the animal shelter]. Why is that? It sounds like the shell game to me and perhaps I’ll see letters from other supporters who think this call for staff changes mea...

NHS Girls’ Lacrosse Team Unbeaten In Conference The Newtown High School girls’ lacrosse team keeps winning. The girls remained perfect in South-West Conference play and improved to 8-1 overall with wins over New Fairfield, Po...

DUI Charge Police said that motorist David Lindblom, 60, of 10 Sunnyview Terrace was driving a 2001 Chrysler Sebring in a commercial parking lot at 5 Queen Street at about 11 am May 3, when the vehicle struck a lightpost there. Lindblom continue...

*Session I: July 6-8 & July 11-15/ $225 *Session II: July 18-22/ $150 *Session III: August 15-19/ $150 The Murphy Basketball Camp welcomes Jeremy O’Connell, Newtown High School’s girls’ basketball coach, to the sta...

Glover Avenue Crosswalk Repainting Approved For Pedestrian Safety By Andrew Gorosko A town work crew started repainting the traffic-worn crosswalk markings on Glover Avenue at its intersection with Meadow Road on Wednesday morning, but then it starte...