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Newtown Softball Registration for the spring recreational season and the final winter clinic is available online at www.newtownsoftball.org. The cost for the spring season is $125 with a late fee of $20 after March 1. Multi-child discounts are 10 pe...

‘Race To Nowhere’ To Be Screened March 2 Housatonic Valley Waldorf School, 40 Dodgingtown Road, parent Carolyn Storrier of Wilton said this week, she is looking forward to the school’s sponsored March 2 showing of ...

Newtown Gymnasts Compete In Conference Championships Gymnasts Leah Wallace, Jenna Calandro, and Meagan Foy, of Newtown High School, participated in the South-West Conference Championships at New Milford High School on February 10. All four girls com...

School Board Approves Adjusted Year-End Report By Eliza Hallabeck The Board of Education met February 15 and approved a FY 2009-10 Year-End Financial Report after deferring discussion of the audit report for a few weeks while it addressed the FY 2011...

Mavs Compete In Tourney Newtown’s fourth-grade girls’ basketball team, the Mavericks, competed in the Brewster League playoffs last week and lost by just a point in the championship game. In the first round, the Mavericks face...

Finance Board, First Selectmen Discuss Revising Capital Plan By John Voket “I’m not talking about the merits of it, I’m talking about the mechanics of it,” said John Kortze summing up one of the challen...

Celebrating Centenary Things On Day 100 By Eliza Hallabeck Newtown schools celebrated the arrival of the 100th day of school on Tuesday, February 15, with parades, counting games, and more. At Sandy Hook School first grade students lined up at 9:20 a...

Winter Guard Members Earn Championship The Newtown High School Varsity Winter Guard was crowned the Winter Guard International Scholastic National A Class Regional Champions on February 12 in Salem, Mass. The team out-performed guards from Connecti...

NHS Animal Concerns Club Gives To The Animal Center By Eliza Hallabeck When the Newtown High School Animal Concerns Club members learned of a cat at the Animal Center in need of an operation, the club responded with a fundraiser that brought in $170....

Malloy Taps Union Leader As State Labor Chief HARTFORD (AP) — Connecticut Governor Dannel P. Malloy has tapped a union leader for the post of labor commissioner, while naming the former human resources director in Stamford as deputy labor...