The Commission on Aging March 18 hybrid meeting included a visit from a local police officer who offered praise for senior center staff and news of an arrest of an individual charged with assaulting a senior citizen.

The Legislative Council approved both the proposed 2024-25 municipal and school budgets without cuts from the Board of Finance approved budgets.

The Inland Wetlands Commission narrowly approved the 117 single-family home development at 20-60 Castle Hill Road in a 4-3 vote during its March 27 meeting.

Police reports for March 22 through March 27, 2024.

A Newtown 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization is among this year’s recipients of a Connecticut Department of Agriculture 2024 Agricultural Enhancement Grant Program award.

The pool deck of the Community Center Aquatics Center is deteriorating, and the town is hoping to find out why.

A steel pedestrian bridge installed 40 years ago to carry foot traffic over the Pootatuck River in Sandy Hook Center was removed last week.

Longtime Riverside On Lake Zoar Association volunteer Joe Madero has been elected president of ROLZA, capping a series of work that improved the private beach and immediate area of the Sandy Hook shoreline community.

Police reports for March 11 through March 26, 2024.

Fire reports for March 20 through March 25, 2024.