Newtown High School students involved in Unified Sports and Best Buddies recently teamed up to run the school's annual campaign to "Ban the 'R' Word." The NHS Best Buddies chapter fosters friendships ...

A community forum was conducted by the Newtown League of Senior Voters at the Senior Center, 14 Riverside Road, on Friday, March 24, at 4 pm. A five-person panel discussed how economic development aff...

The Sandy Hook Permanent Memorial Commission's Design Subcommittee met at the Municipal Center on Thursday, March 23, with Deputy Director of Planning Rob Sibley from the Land Use Agency. The committe...

For the second time in the 2016-17 school year, school district administrators hosted a community forum on Wednesday, March 29, in the Newtown High School Lecture Hall, to hear input on school start t...

Failure To Respond Police said that on the morning of March 27, they arrested Elizabeth Schultz, 27, of Bunnell, Fla., at the police station on a warrant, charging her with failure to respond to ...

Despite all the unknowns and projections of draconian cuts to Newtown's intragovernmental revenues from the state that officials still believe will total around $3 million in the next fiscal cycle, th...

Sitework began this week for the state Department of Transportation's Sugar Street (Route 302) bridge replacement project in the area between The Ram Pasture and The Pleasance. Workers are recontourin...

Public Works Director Fred Hurley, who oversees Newtown's landfill operations and the local recycling program among his duties, recalls how almost 40 years ago, light plastic bags and food wrappers we...

BRIDGEPORT- For the ninth year in a row, Aquarion Water Company is offering fishing permits to any unemployed person over the age of 18, veteran, or active duty service member with a current Connectic...

(Wednesday, March 29, 2017) This story has been updated to represent the March 29 notice from Eversource, which extended the original extension of air patrols. * * * * * Eversource has announced ...