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Bowen And Lapple Earn Athlete Of The Year Accolades By Andy Hutchison Both athletes overcame injuries to lead their teams to championship games this past school year. Both athletes — Kate Bowen and Andy Lapple — are The Newtow...

Hawk Youth Softball Players Help Strike Out Cancer And Opponents The Newtown Hawks 12U Softball team finished second in a field of seven teams playing in the Southington Strikes Out Cancer Tournament last weekend. The Newtown Hawks’ 10U...

Police Make Vandalism Arrests, Probe Other Property Damage Police reported this week that they have been investigating a streak of residential vandalism cases that have occurred in recent weeks, probing the property crimes that often take the form o...

Joseph Frank Paternoster World War II  Army Veteran Joseph Frank Paternoster, 86, of Jacksonville, N.C., and previously of Bridgeport, died June 21. Born in Bridgeport, May 27, 1924, he was a son of Ralph and Lydia Indigo Paternoster. Thr...

Newtown VNA Awards Three Scholarships The Newtown Visiting Nurse Association has presented scholarship checks to three recipients, each of whom has completed her second year and clinical portion of her bachelor of science nursing degree (BSN) program...

In Connection With Jacobsen Death— Suspect Pleads Not Guilty To Drug Charges By Andrew Gorosko On Tuesday in Bridgeport Superior Court, a Texas man pleaded not guilty to two drug charges stemming from his allegedly having provided an ill...

Vroom Service Now Delivers More Than A Dozen Restaurants To Your Door By John Voket So you just got home from an unusually long and grueling day and you just can’t imagine the thought of cooking. Or your team at work has just delivered o...

Program Honors Varian Fry By Nancy K. Crevier Newtown Chapter of Hadassah organizers of the “Varian Fry: America’s Oskar Schindler” program hauled in the benches Tuesday evening, June 15, to accommodate the nearly ...

Ferris Farm Land Preserved For Generations By Nancy K. Crevier State and local officials, and friends and family of Charles Ferris III, and his wife, Shirley, gathered with Newtown Deputy Director of Planning and Land Use Rob Sibley, Friday morning,...

Rising Star Basketball The Rising Star Summer League announces that its 14th season of basketball will get underway on July 12. Registration is accepted online and walk-in signups are available at the Parks & Recreation Department. All boys and girls...