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Relay For Life Organizers Excited About New Location Because of anticipated construction traffic and possible work being done on the high school football stadium, Newtown’s Relay For Life — the awareness and fundraising benefi...

A Flawed System To the Editor: The system by which this town proposes, amends, and subsequently votes on its budget is terribly flawed. It does not allow the voice of a significant portion of the population to be heard. Those, like myself, who disapp...

April 27, 1984 The Legislative Council’s proposed $19,395,059 town budget for fiscal year 1984-85 was unanimously approved at the town meeting April 24 in the auditorium of Newtown High School. Except for brief explanation...

Bus Drivers ‘Get It’ To The Editor: I wish to thank the owner/operator bus drivers for “getting it.” Acknowledging these tough economic times, they agreed to forgo their contracted salary increases this...

Stop Smoking, Childhood Obesity Sessions At St Raphael’s NEW HAVEN — The Hospital of St Raphael will host a free educational stop-smoking seminar as part of an effort to make hospital facilities completely smoke-free later thi...

Commentary— Getting Sick Can Be Really Risky By William A. Collins  Time for patients, To Beware; When they ’re under, Doctor ’s care. Let’s start with the bad news: 100,000 p...

*Jim Sheridan dropped me a note recently to remind me and everyone else that THE ADULTS have a handful of shows in upcoming weeks. The band will be at The Cookhouse in New Milford tonight and then at The One-Eyed Pig on South Main Street in Newtown ...

Local Democrats Confirm Top Of Ticket, GOP Poised To Announce By John Voket The race for the first selectman’s office this fall is shaping up to be a long one, with local Democrats getting a head start by putting their top of ticket candi...

NAMI Celebrating May: Mental Health Awareness Month Fairfield — May is National Mental Health Awareness Month and NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness Fairfield chapter, will sponsor two separate speaker meetings to honor this de...