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Emergency Services Tackled Range Of Problems In 2009 By Andrew Gorosko Local emergency service personnel responded to a broad range of incidents during 2009, one of which symbolically drew much attention and posed travel delays in the town center d...

What A Year In Newtown Sports! — A Look Back At 2009 By Andy Hutchison Another year is in the books, plenty of great achievements are in the sports books and — once again — record-setting performances and champions...

Sixth-Graders Roll To Win Newtown’s sixth grade boys’ basketball team defeated Waterbury 58-28 on December 27. Ethan Carpenter led the way with 15 points. Jared Pearson scored 14 and Andrew Svanda added nine and dominated down...

Job Forecast Finds Employers Expect Uptick in Hiring In 2010 CHICAGO — The encouraging news regarding the economy may be easing hiring fears, as employers signal an increase in their plans to hire in the new year, according to CareerBuil...

Lynford L. McKirdy Decorated World War II Veteran Lynford L. McKirdy, 83, of Southbury, died December 26, after a long battle with Alzheimer’s. He was born April 7, 1926, in Bridgeport, the third son of Hazel H. and James A. Mc...

From The Archives Of Gunn Museum WASHINGTON — Washington Senior Center will begin a series of coffee hour readings based on items in the archives of the Gunn Historical Museum this month. Programs will be the first Monday of each month st...

Men In Green Moving To Final Challenge By Eliza Hallabeck Recently members of Men In Green, a group of Newtown Middle School students that got together to work on their eighth grade science project at the start of the year, learned their project had ...