On March 1, the Board of Finance completed its work on the 2018-19 school district and municipal budget requests, recommending the shifting of some funding from road repairs in order to boost capital ...

Less than two weeks before the first day of spring, a heavy wet snowfall snapped countless trees, felled power lines, forced a statewide truck ban on highways, and kept all of Newtown's plow drivers a...

Governor Dannel Malloy said, "If you don't have to be on the road, don't be on the road," as he warned residents to prepare for heavy wet snow that could fall at rates of three inches per hour...

Connecticut State Police said that on March 5, they arrested a 19-year-old Sandy Hook man on a warrant, charging him in connection with a fatal motor vehicle accident that occurred on Interstate 84 on...

Newtown Public Schools will be closed Wednesday, March 7, due to anticipated weather. A nor'easter is expected to arrive in the area by mid Wednesday morning, and is forecast to leave several inches o...

With a nor'easter approaching the state, The Newtown Bee has moved up its deadlines for this week's regular classified advertisements.classified@thebee.com, by 5 pm Tuesday, March 6. Ads placed after ...

NOTE: This post will continue to be updated on Wednesday, March 7, 2018, with new listings. Announcements will be added to the bottom of the post, below the second illustration. * * * * * The Nat...

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Just days after the February 14 school shooting in Parkland, Fla., former Sandy Hook Elementary School library/media specialist Yvonne Cech traveled to the area to support her friend Diana Haneski, a ...

Newtown Police said February 23 they are investigating several incidents that occurred on the afternoon of February 20, during which a pair of men either passed or attempted to pass counterfeit $100 b...