“Developing [open space] land when other properties are available is wrong,” Ann Astarita wrote in a recent email to the Sandy Hook Permanent Memorial Commission. The statement followed a formal lette...

Superintendent of Schools Joseph V. Erardi, Jr, presented a budget plan for the 2016-17 fiscal year to the Board of Education on Tuesday, January 5. The proposal reflects a 3.87 percent increase in sp...

A sometimes defiant, sometimes scolding, and, at times, tearful President Barack Obama, flanked by survivors of gun violence, addressed the nation in a televised event Tuesday morning, January 5, to a...

Thanks to a gift from the GE Foundation, the town of Newtown can design and construct a new community center. The gift of $15 million will be applied to fund construction and operation costs. Plans fo...

After a downright balmy December, Connecticut is finally experiencing very cold weather for the first time this season. Evening temperatures for Monday, January 4, are expected to dip down to 6 degree...

After 37 years as a town police officer, Michael Kehoe, who rose through the police department’s ranks from patrolman to chief, is retiring from municipal law enforcement. Chief Kehoe, 60, who joined ...

2015 may be remembered as the time when the Planning and Zoning Commission (P&Z) created the Incentive Housing — 10 (IH-10) zoning regulations — a regulatory mechanism that resulted in the P&Z’s appro...