The Center for Disease Control and Prevention is advising consumers, restaurants, and retailers not to eat, serve, or sell any romaine lettuce as it investigates an outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 infections linked to romaine.

Governor Dannel Malloy announced that in anticipation of temperatures over the next couple of days that are forecast to be bitter cold with negative wind chill factors at times, he is activating the State’s Severe Cold Weather Protocol beginning on the afternoon of Wednesday, November 21.

Legislative Council members were among the first to see conceptual images and to hear a proposal for an ambitious project that the Sandy Hook Organization for Prosperity envisions for a vacant brownfields site at 7 Glen Road.

Newtown’s newly hired purchasing agent may have only started his term of employment a few days ago, but the position along with hopes of seeing significant taxpayer savings as a result of his expertise, has been on the minds of local officials past and present for nearly a decade.

FAITH Food Pantry is offering a special Monday evening session for residents this week.

The Newtown Fund Depot Day, when gifts are collected and distributed to designated local families, is only a few weeks away.

A look at current and future projects taking place at Fairfield Hills.

Despite schools being closed for the day, Newtown High School’s fall drama production will open tonight. The Newtown Bee has been notified that curtain will indeed go up tonight, at 7 pm.