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Newtown’s Most Precious Cargo To the Editor: We would like to thank our fellow Newtowners for the faith they have put in us. The letters, emails, and kind words mean a lot to us. The number of supporters that attended some or all of the ...

School Board Awards Transportation Contract To MTM By Eliza Hallabeck Before a large crowd in the Newtown High School auditorium May 19, the Board of Education voted 4-2 to award the special needs and private school transportation in the district to...

The Community Runs For Ron By Eliza Hallabeck Community members, and some of their pets, participated in Reed Intermediate Interact Club’s Run For Ron event Saturday, May 16. More than 100 people registered for the event, and more than $4...

Lion Hill Farm Horse Show Series Easton’s Lion Hill Farm’s 2009 Horse Show Series dates are as follows (Sundays beginning at 8 am): June 14, July 12, September 13, October 4 and November 8. A trophy and six ribbons will be aw...

Running For Ron To the Editor: I would like to take this opportunity to thank Tony Salvatore and the Reed Interact Club for orchestrating the fundraising event to benefit Ron Bienkowski. Ron Bienkowski is the financial manager for, and an integral pa...

Nature Walk Is A Success Despite The Weather! To the Editor: On Sunday, May 17, the Town and Country Garden Club of Newtown sponsored a nature walk at the Orchard Hill Nature Center. The goals of the club are to encourage Newtown residents of all ag...

Some People Go To The Country For The Air, Others Go For The Eau De Vie It was a cool, sunny day as I traveled east on I-84. Upon reaching my destination in Ashford, I was greeted by the familiar smell of fermenting fruit. However, the fruit was ap...

Household Hazardous Waste Collection Day By Eliza Hallabeck Cars drove around the Newtown Public Works garage at 4 Turkey Hill Road from 9 am to 2 pm on Saturday, May 16, to find workers in white suits ready to collect and segregate household items f...

Borough DUI Police said they responded at about 10:22 pm on May 12 to a report of a possibly intoxicated motorist sitting in the driver’s seat of vehicle with the keys in the ignition and the vehicle’s engine running near...

Multi-Chamber Wine Tasting, Networking At Local Vineyards McLaughlin Vineyards will be hosting a Wine Tasting networking event for Chamber of Commerce members from Newtown, Bethel, Brookfield, and Tribury on June 5, from 5:30 to 8:00 pm at 14 Albert...