Log In

Theater Review— Sad, Yet Hopeful: ‘Coming Home’ At Long Wharf By Julie Stern NEW HAVEN — In 1995, a year after Nelson Mandela was elected president of a new, post-Apartheid South Africa, Athol Fugard wr...

Informational Course On Law Enforcement Offered By Andrew Gorosko Police Patrol Officer Domenic Costello will again be coordinating the town police department’s informational program for the public known as Citizen Police Academy. It is ...

For the past three months, most of Newtown has been clear in its reaction to a proposal to bring an Army Reserve training center to a 13-acre site at Fairfield Hills known as the High Meadow. The reaction? We don’t want it! While everyone...

DUI Arrest In response to a complaint that they received about 10 pm February 1, police went to Sandy Hook to find a motorist who reportedly was driving erratically. Police said they saw motorist Natalie Saldamarco, 38, of Seymour, who was trave...

NHS Track Competitors Have Success Selected members of the Newtown High School indoor track team traveled to Coxe Cage at Yale University in New Haven on January 30 to compete in the 2009 South-West Conference Track & Field Tune-Up Invitational. This...

Rebidding NHS Expansion Is A Waste Of Money To the Editor: Newtown needs to improve the high school, and voters approved $38.8 million for it. Initial bids were $6 million over budget. Bad consultant advice, overdesign, and unanticipated cost increa...

VNA 90th Anniversary Comes To An End To the Editor: As all good things must come to an end, and so the Newtown VNA has concluded our 90th Anniversary series of events with an early morning Thank You Breakfast at Sal e Pepe’s. For the who...

Concert Review— Three Friends Made Some Great Music At Meeting House By Andrew Carey “A Brooklyner, a Dubliner, and a guy from upstate New York walk into a Meeting House...” might sound like the opening line of a j...

When Unemployment Is A Full-Time Job By Nancy K. Crevier Several major companies, including Home Depot, Sprint/Nextel, and GM Corporation, announced January 26 cuts of more than 60,000 jobs. On January 27, IBM silently entered the fray, with layoffs ...

Horse Guard To Present Book At Booth Library The Second Company Governor’s Horse Guard has produced and published a book to commemorate its 200th Anniversary. There will be a panel discussion and historical display of how the book was pr...