Have you ever found yourself out of town the one day at the beginning of each December when the Newtown Youth and Family Services’ Holiday Festival is scheduled, and wished you had been able to partak...

We search our hearts this Thanksgiving for what fills us with gratitude. Many among us suffer in myriad ways, families and friends are separated by pandemic restrictions, and we easily forget that jus...

Go crazy! Whoop it up! Join in raucous merrymaking! That’s the directive the idiom “Paint the town red!” encourages. But on November 12, Newtown was painted red — on the state COVID-19 data map. And t...

The State of Connecticut does not usually allow voting by absentee ballot unless a person qualifies due to active duty military service, an illness that prevents in-person voting, absence from town du...

We know now who will be representing us in Hartford, and whether or not your chosen candidate came out on top, supporting them and speaking with — not at — them to make known your concerns will provid...

Local candidates close to hearth, heart, and home add challenge to picking one over the other. This year, two of the three seats representing Newtown in the General Assembly at Hartford are contested....

Let’s be clear: Halloween on Main Street is not a town event; it is not hosted by any organization. It is a celebration of the spooky evening in which, for years, Main Street residents have graciously...

It is Breast Cancer Awareness month, but as Congresswoman Jahana Hayes reminds us, there are other cancers in this world against which we must be on guard. “The only way we can cut the cancer of racis...

“Newtown Loves Local” is the collaboration between the Economic and Community Development Commission and the Newtown Chamber of Commerce, and it could not come at a better time. Shop Small Saturday, t...