VFW Post 308 will host a Veterans Day Ceremony this year.

The United States Postal Service will host two passport events at Hawleyville Post Office, 23 Barnabas Road, Saturday November 7 and 14.

Four familiar faces are returning to represent the community in the Connecticut General Assembly, and Newtown could eventually see multifamily apartment housing at Fairfield Hills after local voters endorsed considering limited mixed-use development to the Fairfield Hills Master Plan.

Official results for yesterday’s elections have not been released by the Office of the Registrar of Voters, but most are expected by noon.

It appears registered Newtown voters are turning out in record numbers this Election Day.

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Police reports covering Newtown, Conn., for the period of September 25-October 27, 2020.

Local residents and those planning to visit Newtown for Trick or Treating this weekend — especially those planning to head toward Main Street, where crowds have traditionally reached into thousands of people — are reminded that local officials have asked that Halloween celebrations are kept low key this pandemic year.

Hours after Governor Ned Lamont revealed Connecticut’s 6.1 percent positivity rate October 29 — describing the surge in cases like a “gut punch” — two local hospitals have begun limiting visitation to help prevent COVID-19 transmissions to patients and staff.