Following discussion at a July 25 executive session, Borough Zoning Commission (BZC) members named Maureen Crick Owen as the borough's zoning enforcement officer (ZEO). Mrs Crick Owen, who has long se...

Sandy Hook Promise founder Mark Barden, father of Daniel Barden, one of 26 people killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School on 12/14, will be featured in a segment of 60 Minutes on CBS, Sunday evening, A...

A Middlebury woman who walked a dog being held at the town's Animal Control Center at Fairfield Hills, has sued the town and others over that dog having bit her in February 2016. In the civil suit fil...

Residents will have an opportunity to learn and ask questions about a 72-bed assisted living complex proposed for 37 Church Hill Road in the borough, when the Borough Zoning Commission (BZC) holds a p...

Legislative Council Chair Mary Ann Jacob and Councilman Neil Chaudhary have filed more than enough qualified signatures of local Republicans to force a primary against endorsed GOP first selectman can...

Failure to Appear At about 10:52 pm on August 1, near 71 South Main Street, police said they stopped for investigation motorist Isaac Gyimah, 25, of Stratford, who was driving a Volkswagen Passa...

The dispatchers at the Newtown Emergency Communications Center at Town Hall South, 3 Main Street, report the following fire calls and the responders: Thursday, July 27: 2:11 pm, brush fire, Button...

This report was updated at 1 pm on August 4 affirming the subject's political party status. A week after he secured 11 votes from among more than 300 local Republicans who packed a caucus at Edmo...

Newtown State Representative Mitch Bolinsky (R-106) is still trying to come to grips with what he described as a "backwards" concept of negotiating and approving a decade-long labor contract with stat...

The National Weather Service in Upton, N.Y., has issued a second Severe Thunderstorm Warning covering Newtown this afternoon. An earlier warning expired at 2:30 pm, and no rain or thunder arrived in t...