Following an extended meeting on Thursday, March 3, the Board of Finance recommended a 2016-17 budget proposal to the Legislative Council totaling $114,901,744. If left as is by the council and approv...

In a move to boost attendance and spur business activity at the seasonal Farmers Market at Fairfield Hills, the market is seeking a zoning rule change that would allow prepared foods to be sold at the...

Cochran House at Fairfield Hills was named in the 1950s for Alice Cochran, who was once the Fairfield Hills state mental hospital's Board of Trustees chairman. According to Town Historian Dan Cruson, ...

After technical review, the Inland Wetlands Commission (IWC) has approved a town project to improve five sections of the Pond Brook streambank that runs alongside Pond Brook Road in Hawleyville. At a ...

Song, dance, music, and theater together on Wednesday, March 2 were part of a closing ceremony to wrap up The Avielle Foundation's Spark after school program winter semester. The afternoon at the NYA ...

The process of possibly merging town and school district departments to create greater taxpayer savings and improved efficiencies could be long and slow, considering the human resources and labor cont...

Following the State Department of Education's release of scores for every school in the state based on different measures, Superintendent of Schools Joseph V. Erardi, Jr, and Assistant Superintendent ...

HARTFORD - After a former Newtown police sergeant is sentenced for convictions on two drug crimes, he may spend several years in federal prison, receive a sizable fine, and perform substantial probati...

The radio dispatchers at the Newtown Emergency Communications Center at Town Hall South, 3 Main Street, report the following fire calls and the responders:Thursday, March 3: 8:53 am, motor vehicle acc...

Using the occasion of National Groundwater Awareness Week March 6-12, Newtown Health District Director Donna Culbert cautioned Newtown residents - especially the majority of local homes relying on wel...