Please note, the song that was sung at the end of the lighthouse dedication on June 14 was called “We Choose Love.” It was written by Darryl Gregory and his students, as a gift to Newtown from Sch...

St Rose of Lima Parish will host its annual carnival on the parish grounds beginning Tuesday evening, June 25, and continuing nightly through Saturday, June 29. The carnival will operate from 6 to 10:...

Considered an engineering milestone, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world’s largest particle accelerator. The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) built the Hadron Collider from 1...

Wedding dresses and trousseau items from the late 1800s to the 1960s will be displayed in the Mary Hawley dining room, on the third floor of the C.H. Booth Library, beginning Thursday, June 20, said l...

CBS News out of Manitoba, Canada, reports that singer Harry Connick, Jr, has written a song especially for Ana Marquez-Greene. “Love Wins” is the song on Harry’s new CD, written in memory of 6-year-ol...

Occupation: I’ve been an antiques dealer for over 40 years, and I’ve owned four shops, including one in Newtown, in the 1980s. It was in the building on the corner of Pecks Lane, where the pasta s...

Days of rain led up to the 26th Annual Sandy Hook Volunteer Fire & Rescue Co.’s LobsterFest last week, but the addition of a series of tents to cover guests as they approached the ticket tables and th...

June 17, 1988 The effort to find a “hang out” for Newtown youths free from hassle and the threat of trespassing tickets, until now an all-talk-and-no-action proposition, finally bore some fruit t...

The custom lighthouses are in place, including a 20-foot tall custom built lighthouse that was set up in front of Trinity Episcopal Church late Wednesday afternoon. “What a work of love,” said one vol...