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NHS Junior/Senior Project Presentations Conclude By Eliza Hallabeck The last of Newtown High School students to present for the first semester’s Junior/Senior Project class did so after school on Monday, January 31. The Junior/Senior Pro...

Sexual Assault Police report that after learning that they held a warrant for his arrest, Abdullah Mehraban, 66, of Clinton turned himself over to police at the police station on January 26 and was charged with fourth-degree sexual assault and w...

From Takeout To Fine Dining,The Villa Keeps On Evolving   Sixteen months later The Villa reopened, offering an elegant main dining room that seats about 85 in booths along three walls and at tables in the room’s center, a private 40...

Development Agency Advises State Eliminate Several Business Tax Credits HARTFORD (AP) — Several Connecticut tax credits and property tax abatements have a negative or limited impact and should be abolished, the state Department of Economi...

*** In the storm that hit on February 4, highway department employees returned to work at 5 pm, after leaving at 3:30, and worked through the next day, resulting in 373 hours of overtime for that storm. For that storm the department used 968 yards of...

Tammy Marks Wins Sportsman Of The Year Award By Andy Hutchison Thanks to her interest and efforts, basketball players of a variety of ages from kindergarten through the twelfth grade know where they’re playing and, for that matter, that t...

Another Barn Succumbs To The Weight Of Winter By Shannon Hicks A small two-story barn in Newtown collapsed last week under the weight of snow that had been accumulating on its roof this winter, a season that has already given us a record-breaking amo...

Cats Looking For Homes Pudge and Onyx are cats who are currently at Mt Pleasant Hospital For Animals and are available for adoption. New Kitty is among the felines available through the Animal Center. PUDGE is a handsome, all white male cat, abou...

Where do you allow your pet to sleep? Or is it the other way around? Wendy Grasso and son Sammy: My husband kicked the cat out of the room when we got married. We have another one now. They sleep on the couch. Lilia Alvarez: I do have a dog. She doe...