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Summer Programs Planned At Osborne Homestead Museum & Kellogg Environmental Center DERBY — The Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has released its schedule of summer programs to be offered at Osborne Homestead Museu...

Putting To Rest (Again) And Old ‘New Idea’ To the Editor: Every four years it seems someone brings up the “new idea” to put traffic lights on the flagpole. It kicks around for a short while, then the f...

Geckos Win Baseball Title The Sterling Associates Geckos’ baseball team capped off a championship run in Newtown’s 12-year-old division with an improbable final game, two-out rally in the bottom of the sixth inning. The Geckos...

St Rose Track And Field Highlights The St Rose junior varsity track team (grades K-4) won its division of the parochial league spring track and field championships held at Immaculate High School, recently. St Rose scored 238 points, followed by St M...

EPA Grants Could Be Substantial For Fairfield Hills By Kendra Bobowick Why stop at $200,000? The recent brownfields grant for cleanup and remediation work at Stratford Hall in Fairfield Hills may be just the first piece of Environmental Protection Ag...

Lax Camps Jaime Vavrek, a member of Newtown High School’s boys’ lacrosse team, will hold two lacrosse camp sessions (June 29 through July 2 and July 20-23) at Treadwell Park. The camps, for children in grades 3-8, will partici...

Softball Alums Reunite At NHS By Andy Hutchison Current Nighthawks took on past players in Newtown High School’s first annual Alumni Game at NHS on June 17. Former teammates, many of whom have been away from the game for several years, h...

Regional Agencies Oppose Railroad Waste Expansion By Andrew Gorosko Newtown has gained the backing of two regional agencies in seeking to thwart the Housatonic Railroad Company’s proposal to greatly expand the tonnage of solid waste and i...