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Police Seek Expanded Space For Law Enforcement By Andrew Gorosko Armed with a detailed architectural study describing the police department’s space needs in the coming years, the Police Commission plans to meet with the selectmen soon in ...

Garner Training Drill Planned; Cellblock Transition Slated By Andrew Gorosko The state Department of Correction (DOC) plans to conduct a full-scale training exercise at Garner Correctional Institution on Nunnawauk Road this fall to prepare prison s...

Still Close To Schedule— St R­ose School Construction Due To Be Done By The End Of October By Eliza Hallabeck Since the demolition of St Patrick’s Hall in the end of May, construction for the new multipurpose building at St ...

Final State Budget Has $83.4 Million Surplus HARTFORD (AP) — Connecticut’s budget has ended the fiscal year with a surplus of $83.4 million. State Comptroller Nancy Wyman certified the budget figure on September 2. The $83.4 m...

One Can At A Time Made A Huge Difference To everyone who donated to the food drive: When I started the idea of a food drive, I had no idea how successful it would be. Would enough people know to bring their food to the parade? When I set a goal of 1...

Picking Through An Opportunity Lost It shouldn’t be this hard. Newtown voters demonstrated last April that they are strongly behind an expansion of Newtown High School when they approved a $38.8 million plan by a margin of more than 1,30...

BOE Votes To Request $6 Million More For NHS Expansion By Eliza Hallabeck One question was repeated during the August 28 special meeting of the Board of Education: How could the Newtown High School Expansion Project be off by so much? After hearing d...

Teen Competition Seeks To Identify Fairfield County’s Environmental Leaders Of Tomorrow Westport-based energy company Gault, Inc, and the nonprofit organization Polar Bears International (PBI) has launched Project Polar Bear, a competitio...

Boy Injured In Bicycle Incident On Elm Drive Police are investigating an incident in which a 13-year-old boy, who was riding a bicycle on Elm Drive on the afternoon of August 28, was nearly struck by an automobile, causing the boy to fall off the bi...

Combining The Old And The New At The Inn At Newtown The Inn at Newtown, long a fixture on Main Street, is gearing up for a busy fall and holiday season. Halloween décor will be in evidence as October draws neigh, and on October 31, when hundreds of...