Found Backpack Police are looking for the owner of a found backpack containing several dolls that was located near the intersection of Mt Nebo Road and Fieldstone Drive on December 5. The owner i...

As the C.H. Booth Library continues its pursuit for a new library director, its Board of Trustees has now called in reinforcements to help in the search. According to C.H. Booth Library Board of Trust...

Tucked away in the woods of Riverside Road, just behind the Newtown Underwater Search and Rescue building, are 5.33 acres of land dedicated to where the upcoming Sandy Hook permanent memorial will res...

HARTFORD- Governor Dannel P. Malloy announced December 6 that he is directing U.S. and State of Connecticut flags to be lowered to half-staff from sunrise to sunset on Thursday, December 7, 2017, in r...

Workers are expected by December 1 to assemble all the steel racking required to hold the town's planned solar/electric array at the closed municipal landfill off Ethan Allen Road, according to the su...

Residents are being sought to fill several opening on local appointed boards and commissions. In some cases the appointments are required to be affiliated with a specific political party, while in oth...

To keep traffic flowing on the eastern end of Sugar Street (Route 302), while workers labor to replace a deteriorated bridge there, the westbound and eastbound lanes of Sugar Street have been relocate...

NOTE: This is an updated and expanded version of a story first reported on Sunday, November 26, 2017. By John Voket & Andrew Gorosko The town's five volunteer fire companies, along with Newt...

On November 27, members of the Newtown Lions Club Foundation, Inc presented the Salvation Army Newtown-Bethel Chapter a check for $1,200. The Newtown Lions Club Foundation, Inc has supported the effor...

On the occasion of what First Selectman Pat Llodra joked was her "exit interview" with The Newtown Bee, the walls and surfaces in her Newtown Municipal Center office held only a few remaining photos a...