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NHS Golfer Doski Wins Tournament Newtown High School golfer Abbey Doski shot an 88 to win the South-West Conference girls’ golf championship at Aspetuck Valley Country Club in Weston on Tuesday. Doski finished two strokes ahead of Franci...

Inmate Charged In Garner Prison Assault State police report they were called to Garner Correctional Institution at 50 Nunnawauk Road midday on May 18 to investigate an assault involving two inmates at the high-security prison. After investigating, s...

A Fish Story? To the Editor: It wasn’t only a few little fish that were gushed away through the town-installed drainage pipes that were thrust unexpectedly into The Great Bog’s pond on Boggs Hill Road two weeks ago. This was d...

Newtown Softball Team Falls In Semis By Andy Hutchison Newtown High School’s softball team advanced to the South-West Conference Tournament semifinals by defeating New Fairfield in the quarterfinal round. The third-seeded Nighthawksâ&#x8...

Masonicare At Newtown Free Summer Sounds Concerts Begin June 10 For the 23rd consecutive year, Ashlar of Newtown will sponsor free Summer Sounds concerts on the grounds of Masonicare at Newtown, 139 Toddy Hill Road. Residents are invited to bring la...

Memorial Service A Tribute To The Living And Dead By Nancy K. Crevier The upbeat chatter of the crowd of veterans, family members of service people, and townspeople gathered at the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Post 308, on Tinkerfield Road, Monday morn...

Nourishments— Fiddlehead Ferns A Fleeting Springtime Treat By Nancy K. Crevier A friend was so kind as to bring me a bag of fiddleheads this week that she had bought at a roadside stand in Maine. The delicate sprouts of the ostrich fern a...

Newtown Support Groups Friday, May 29        AA, Newtown United Methodist Church, 92 Church Hill Road, 8 pm, beginners meeting, open discussion. Saturday, May 30       Daily Reflections meeting, St Rose School (Monsignor Conr...

Women’s Summer Basketball The Newtown Youth Academy offers a women’s summer basketball league beginning on June 8. Games will be played Mondays at either 7, 8 or 9 pm. Players must be 18 or older or be a high school graduati...

Franz Josef Haydn was born in 1732 in Rohrau, Austria, and died May 31, 1809, in Vienna, 200 years ago this year. The concert honoring Haydn will open with CCS singing the composer’s Missa Brevis, Hob. XXII:7, B-flat Major, St. Joannis de...