NOTE (Thursday, December 7, 2017; 12:13 pm): This feature has been updated to remove one reference to 12/14, and to properly reflect a detail concerning Abbey Clements. * * * * * In an age where ...

Newtown's largest private landowner, the Newtown Forest Association (NFA), seeks to keep history, hayfields, and horses at Cherry Grove Farm through an agreement with the farm's new owner. The NFA, th...

If you scoured for deals on Black Friday, Shop Small Saturday, and Cyber Monday and still haven't found the perfect gift for your four-legged canine companion, think twice before you buy any of these ...

For the 32nd year, Newtown Savings Bank will present the Annual Holiday Festival, a fundraiser for Newtown Youth & Family Services.newtownyouthandfamilyservices.org.two performances of Nutcracker Suit...

Dance has been around since the dawn of time, inspiring people to have moves like Jagger, to cut footloose, and to dance like no one is watching. All ages can benefit from the positive physical, menta...

Residents followed luminaries that lined South Main Street and Elm Drive to attend the 33rd Annual Ram Pasture Tree Lighting, on Friday, December 1. The event included performances from Newtown High S...

Occupation: I work as an emergency telecommunicator dispatcher for the Town of Newtown. I answer emergency and nonemergency calls and then dispatch to the proper agencies: police, fire, EMS. I've ...

Paul Shafer slid into a booth at Village Perk Café in Sandy Hook. From a stuffed folder he pulled out a laminated sorting guide filled with mayfly and stonefly drawings, various forms of caddis, a fis...

A "holly, jolly Christmas" often means many preparations, including dressing trees in lights. As they do each year, a Public Works Department crew spent time in Sandy Hook Center this week, unfurling ...

The Friends of the C.H. Booth Library have promised me that they have some awesome books and gift items at the Holiday Book Sale, this Saturday, from 9:30 am to 5 pm, and Sunday, from 11 am to 5 pm. Y...