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‘Lost Boy’ Leader Returning To Newtown On Saturday, May 22, Trinity Episcopal Church will host the return of John Dau, one of the 27,000 boys driven from their villages when the northern Arab government attacked the ethnic min...

Charles Merten Former Associate Professor At Cornell Medical College Charles Merten, 85, of Southbury, died April 27, at Danbury Hospital, with his family at his side. He was born in Augusta, Kan., July 22, 1924, the son of Matthew and Anna Hawe...

Town Players Announces Auditions For ‘Importance of Being Earnest’ Town Players of Newtown will conduct auditions May 10 and 12 for its July production of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, to be direc...

Soapboxes And Satellites Ever since the architects of America appended a Bill of Rights to their masterpiece Constitution, freedom of belief and speech has stood at the front of the line of our cherished rights in the First Amendment. Our modes of ex...

Students Raise Funds For Cambodia Newtown High School students in the group Two Schools One Song sold “Gratitude Rocks” at the Blue Z Coffeehouse on Thursday, April 29. A collection box for donations was set up next to a tabl...

Lawmakers Restrict Inmate FOI Use HARTFORD (AP) — Connecticut lawmakers have voted to stop prisoners from using the state’s open government laws to access personnel files of correctional officers and employees of the Board of ...

Tick Committee Anticipates Decisions, Debates In Coming Weeks By Kendra Bobowick “Is anyone prepared to present tonight?” asked Tick-Borne Disease Action Committee Chairman Robert Grossman, who waited Wednesday evening, April...

Rep Murphy Gathers Parents, Educators For Education Roundtable By John Voket Congressman Chris Murphy paid a visit to Newtown resident Addie Sandler’s home on the first weekend in May for some discussion about the future of the federal No...

I-84 Accidents Create Extended Travel Delays By Andrew Gorosko Tuesday was not an easy day to drive through town, either on Interstate 84 or on adjacent local roads, as three accidents on the highway in and near Newtown caused extended vehicle backu...

Fairfield Hills Authority Chair To Resign By Kendra Bobowick Fairfield Hills Authority Chairman Bob Geckle will resign as of May 31 from the appointed body of volunteers overseeing the former state hospital’s plans for reuse. He has been...