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Antoinette Oman Gracious And Loving Antoinette “Bootsie” Oman, 80, of Newtown, died January 2. Born April 30, 1930, in Norwalk, to Victoria and Frank Fratto, she is survived by her loving husband of 57 years, Donald Oman;...

Trout Unlimited Meeting Trout Unlimited is holding a meeting at the Miry Brook Fire House on Miry Brook Road in Danbury at 7:30 pm on Tuesday, January 11. The topic of the January meeting is “Salmon and Steelhead Fishing Lake Ontario Tri...

Blood Drive Monday: Organizers Hoping To Make Up For Holiday Slowdown, Snow Delays Newtown Lions Club has once again teamed up with the American Red Cross to sponsor a blood drive at Newtown Congregational Church this month. The club has helped pres...

Wheels For Kids To The Editor: On behalf of Newtown Rotary Club we wish to thank all the residents of Newtown and Sandy Hook who contributed to the recent “Wheels For Kids” project. This is the first year that the club has sup...

Arthur E. Potz A Generous Family Man Arthur E. Potz, 67, formerly of Wethersfield, Monroe, and Newtown, died December 15, in Zephyrhills, Fla. He was born in Hartford, May 19, 1943. He is survived by his loving wife and best friend, Keven Ann, o...

South Main Accident About 12:50 pm on December 30, motorist Robert Hall, 71, of 5 Nettleton Avenue, who was driving a 2003 Lincoln Town Car sedan southward on South Main Street, stopped to allow a southbound noncontact vehicle to make a left tur...

Fifth-Graders Are PAL Tournament Champions Newtown’s fifth-grade boys’ travel basketball team won the Danbury Police Activities League Holiday Tournament championship this week. The Newtowners came into the tourney riding a f...

Newtown Sixth-Graders Win Newtown’s sixth-grade girls’ basketball team topped Trumbull 33-15 this week, to improve to 6-3. Olyvia Shaw led the way with ten points, and was followed by Nikki Zaccaro and Jessica Maturo with eigh...

More Than 300 Million Abbott Diabetes Care Products Recalled HARTFORD — The Department of Consumer Protection is alerting consumers to new information from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) about certain blood glucose test strips ...

You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great. —Joe Sabah Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. —Martin Luther King,...