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The Community Action Agency of Western Connecticut is now accepting energy assistance applications for the 2020-21 heating season. Newtown’s Human Services office will be taking similar applications by month’s end.

All eight counties of Connecticut are under a Tropical Storm Warning through early Wednesday morning.

Calls for Newtown Volunteer Ambulance Corps for the period of July 23 to July 30, 2020.

Fire calls and their responders in Newtown, Conn., for the period of July 23 to July 30, 2020.

The National Weather Service has issued tornado watch that remains in effect until 10 pm this evening for areas of western and southern Connecticut, including Newtown.

With the Connecticut General Assembly mustering the votes to pass it, and Governor Ned Lamont’s verbal endorsement a day ahead of a July 28 special session with the state Senate, it appears that Connecticut will be among the first in the nation to codify a sweeping new and historic police reform bill. Learn what local lawmakers were thinking as the bill moved through the special session.

As a summer special session of the Connecticut General Assembly wrapped up this week, three individuals challenging incumbent members of the Newtown legislative delegation offered their input regarding arguably the most high profile and controversial outcomes — the passage of police accountability legislation by both the House and Senate along party lines.

State and local officials expressed concern with recent COVID-19 outbreak clusters among teens and young adults in Connecticut as statistics from Connecticut and elsewhere show that 18- to 29-year-olds represent substantial numbers of new COVID-19 infections in recent weeks.