From its earliest days as conceptual drawings, until a few days ago when Newtown's Public Building and Site Commission (PBSC) officially closed out the Sandy Hook Elementary School building project, t...

Residents attending an August 9 Borough Zoning Commission (BZC) public hearing on Church Hill Village, a 72-bed assisted-living complex proposed for a 3.97-acre site at 37 Church Hill Road (US Route 6...

Monroe Police Officer Andrew Wall, a 21-year resident of Sandy Hook, has filed a lawsuit against the town of Monroe "and its employees" in his effort to return to work after nearly two years of battli...

Newtown is scheduled to be the second to last stop as US Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) completes his second "Walk Across Connecticut," taking to the state's streets and dirt roads to listen t...

Following their review of modified plans for a retail center planned for 73-75 Church Hill Road (US Route 6), Planning and Zoning Commission (P&Z) members have unanimously approved those revisions for...

By the afternoon of August 3, nearly all of the new seats for the Newtown High School auditorium were in place. The first phase of the project is expected to be completed around August 21 or 22, and t...

The dispatchers at the Newtown Emergency Communications Center report the following fire calls and the responders: Thursday, August 3: 6:06 pm, alarm, 12 Newbury Road, Hawleyville and Hook & Ladde...

Police report that on the morning of August 9, they arrested Mark Manley, 47, of 265 South Main Street, charging him with second-degree burglary and sixth degree larceny in connection with an incident...

DUI Arrest Police report that at about 11 pm on August 8, they stopped motorist Sierra Johnson, 22, of Waterbury to investigate near Church Hill Road. Police said they charged Johnson with drivin...

A first of its kind application for local tax breaks for a massive residential rental complex in Hawleyville referred to as the "Covered Bridge" development became the first under the Newtown Business...