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After roughly 45 years, a vintage roadster finally saw the light of day again when it was pulled out of a Sandy Hook garage on September 1. The vintage cabriolet style Chevrolet was owned by Fred Pendergast, Sr according to his his son Bill Pendergas...

Struck Electrical Box, Mailboxes Newtown Police report Aiden Melrose, 18, of Douglastown, N.Y., operating a 2009 Audi A5, was traveling southbound on Cobblestone Lane at 2:53 pm August 22. While negotiating a left-hand curve in the roadway, Melr...

Newtown High School’s boys’ soccer team has a young team following the graduation of 13 seniors. But the talent is there for title contention only two years and a lot of roster turnover removed from the program’s South-West Conference North Division ...

The Board of Selectmen at its September 6 meeting endorsed a list of safety guidelines that will apply at the Sandy Hook Memorial when it opens in November. The list was drafted by the Sandy Hook Permanent Memorial Commission (SHPMC) in July. The com...

The dispatchers at the Newtown Emergency Communications Center, at 191 South Main Street, report the following fire calls and the responders: Wednesday, August 31: 10:27 am, medical assist, Mt Pleasant Road, Hawleyville responded; 3:22 pm, smoke/...

Newtown High School’s girls’ and boys’ cross country teams are ready to begin the season. Coaches Christina Caron and Carl Strait are excited to see what transpires. The girls will be challenged by South-West Conference rivals New Milford and Pompera...

Coming off a South-West Conference title run, Newtown High School’s field hockey team will take the field with a new look this fall. The roster is in a bit of a rebuilding stage with several newcomers and only four juniors and four seniors in the fol...

The Faxon Law New Haven Road Race events — made possible by title sponsor Faxon Law Group, for which Newtown’s Joel Faxon is a partner — took place on Labor Day, September 5. This included a half marathon, half marathon relay, 5K, Town Fair Tire kids...

“It's a long season,” Coach Bobby Pattison said after his Newtown High School football team played its season opener, on September 9. The Nighthawks have a lot of football ahead and a chance to bounce back following what was a long night — in more wa...

Perhaps the best-kept secret of the 2022 Labor Day Parade Committee was the last-minute recruitment of Mother Nature who kept Monday morning’s forecasted steady rain showers at bay until well after the many participating pieces of local rescue and fi...