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On Hawleyville PO— Developer Patiently Awaiting USPS Decision By Nancy K. Crevier For three years, Mark Murphy of Dimark Development in Amsterdam, N.Y., has been working with the Housatonic Railroad and the United States Postal Service (U...

Author Visits Reed Intermediate School By Eliza Hallabeck Author Shelley Pearsall was at Reed Intermediate School Thursday, May 7, to speak with students who read at least eight of the books on the Nutmeg Book Award list for year, to share her experi...

Open Studios Tour Will Offer Access To Six Artists’ Havens On Saturday, May 16, Newtown Woman’s Club will offer a Self-Guided Open Studio Tour. Six Newtown artists, all of them well known and award-winning in their field â&#x...

House: No Credit Checks Of Employees HARTFORD (AP)  The Connecticut House of Representatives has passed legislation that prevents employers from requiring workers or prospective hires to consent to a credit check. The legislation, which passed 109-...

Boggs Hill Road Residents Upset Over Lowered Water Level In Swamp By Andrew Gorosko Some Boggs Hill Road residents are upset over the town’s decision to lower the water level of a large swamp alongside that road, sometimes known as The Gr...

Daria Musk Will Be Co-Headlining With Her Mom At Flagpole Radio Café Season Finale By John Voket Newtown’s Daria Musk is going straight from rubbing elbows and performing among some of the world’s top musicians, back to per...

Making The Budget More Accessible To the Editor: We are very pleased that the 2009-2010 town budget passed on the first referendum. While it was a difficult budget process, we believe it was in the best interests of the town to get this budget passe...

May 18, 1984 The Cyrenius H. Booth Library will soon join forces with other area libraries by linking into a computer network which will give Newtown patrons access to some two million books. In January, library trustees agreed that j...

Senior services for Newtown seniors are available at the Multipurpose Building on Riverside Road in Sandy Hook. The Senior Center is under the auspices of the Commission on Aging. The center is run by Senior Services Director Marilyn Place. For more ...