Club NewFit will conduct a mock Disaster Relief Shelter Drill this weekend. The event is scheduled for Sunday, May 29, from 3:30 to 6:30 pm, at the health and fitness club, 23 Commerce Road. Club NewF...

NEW HAVEN - The New Haven Documentary Film Festival (NHDocs) has expanded this year to present 15 documentary features and 26 shorts over 11 days, June 2-12. Screenings take place at Yale's Whitney Hu...

Connecticut's prison population has soared from 3,800 to 17,000 since 1980, filled mostly with nonviolent drug users. When they are released, they do not have adequate preparation or support to succee...

On Saturday, May 28, the Newtown Lions Club will present the Annual Great Pootatuck Duck Race from 10 am to 3:30 pm in Sandy Hook Center. Tickets for the rubber duck race are going fast in anticipatio...

Newtown Historical Society will sponsor a clothing drive in conjunction with Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southwestern Connecticut. The drive will take place Saturday, June 4, from 9 am to 3 pm, at the...

The Ashurst Academy of Irish Dance is proud to announce its opening on June 1, following a recent purchase of Newtown and Danbury studio locations from Gray School of Irish Dance. Its new owners, and ...

The next film to be offered free of charge at Edmond Town Hall Theatre, thanks to Ingersoll Auto of Danbury, will be Race. In this drama released in February, director Stephen Hopkins tells the story ...

In a touching tribute to the life and legacy of one of the children killed on 12/14, The Catherine Violet Hubbard Foundation will host its second annual Catherine's Butterfly Party on Saturday, June 4...

Melody Asbury of Woodbury will be demonstrating in oil at the next meeting of The Society of Creative Arts of Newtown (SCAN) on Wednesday, May 25, at 1:30 pm. Her subject will be an animal. This meeti...