The simple act of saying "hello" can have a tremendous effect on children and young people who feel left out, lonely or invisible in their community. Sandy Hook Promise (SHP), the gun violence prevent...

Connecticut's Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) is forecasting unhealthy air quality for "sensitive groups" through Saturday, May 28, due to predicted elevated ground-level ozon...

Four local fire companies were initially dispatched to the area of 44 Castle Hill Road shortly before 2 am, Wednesday,  May 25, following a call to Newtown's dispatch center that reported what...

Fire officials picked through the ashes in seeking the cause of a suspicious fire that destroyed a vacant house at 20 Castle Hill Road, early on the morning of Wednesday, May 25.This is an updated and...

Margot Hall took cautious steps into the Edmond Town Hall boiler room Tuesday, May 17, to visit what she calls "the ladies down below."Queen Mary."The Newtown Bee microfilm also failed to answer Ms Ha...

State Representative Mitch Bolinsky (R-106) has two Legislative Coffee Hour events scheduled in Newtown, the first of which will take place this week. Rep Bolinsky will be at Village P...

The long-awaited expansion of the Hawleyville municipal sanitary sewer system will start with the construction of a sewage collector system at Midway Home Estates, a mobile home park at 160 Mt Pleasan...

Members of Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Post 308 gathered on Thursday, May 19, joined by community residents to replace American flags at the graves of veterans buried in cemeteries across Newtown. ...

Public Building & Site Commission Chairman Bob Mitchell updated the Board of Education at its meeting on Tuesday, May 17, on the Newtown High School auditorium renovation project and on the new Sandy ...