The dispatchers at the Newtown Emergency Communications Center at Town Hall South at 3 Main Street, report the following fire calls and the responders: Thursday, February 8: 3:18 pm, investigation...

Residents who are having any difficulty coping with the news that 17 people were killed on February 14 in a shooting at a high school in Parkland, Fla., are reminded that Newtown has a number of locat...

President Donald J. Trump has issued a proclamation ordering American flags to be lowered to honor those killed on February 14 in the country's latest mass shooting incident. Seventeen people were kil...

The Sandy Hook Permanent Memorial Commission (SHPMC) and its professional Advisory Panel gathered in the Newtown High School Lecture Hall on February 8 and 13 to complete Phase 1-A of its design evalu...

Two people escaped injury on westbound Interstate 84 on the night of February 13, when the auto that they had just left at roadside due to a breakdown was demolished by an oncoming tractor-trailer tru...

Gone is the 200-year-old oak tree that stood at the top of Toddy Hill Road. As of early afternoon on Friday, February 9, crews had cleared the far-reaching canopy and trunk, leaving just a stump on th...

Following some modifications made by the applicant, Planning and Zoning Commission (P&Z) members have approved a new set of zoning regulations that would apply only to a property at 94 South Main Stre...

Planning & Zoning Commission (P&Z) members have filled a vacancy on the eight-member panel created by the recent departure of an alternate member. On February 1, P&Z members named Democrat Benjamin To...

The largest land development of its kind that has been proposed locally is slated for public hearings before two town land use commissions next week, when developer 79 Church Hill Road, LLC's, mixed-u...

To study two complex zoning topics, which the Planning & Zoning Commission (P&Z) has grappled with for years, the P&Z has formed two committees whose members will research the issues stemming from Sou...