The Connecticut PTA recently announced the names of the state winners for the annual student Reflections program. An awards ceremony is scheduled for May 16, following the announcement of the competit...

Newtown High School and the Newtown International Center for Education (NICE) program hosted two delegations back to back in March. A delegation of educators and students from Spain visited from March...

Newtown will be represented by two local Odyssey of the Mind teams at the World Finals competition next month. Multiple teams from Newtown took part in the state level of the competition, which was he...

From March 5 to 9, students at Middle Gate Elementary School observed a technology-free week after fourth grader Tyler Rosvally came up with the idea. The school's Student Council worked on March 27 t...

The Newtown Middle School Jazz Band ventured to the University of New Hampshire, Durham, to attend the Clark Terry Jazz Festival near the start of March, and the group shared some of its experiences o...

Newtown High School students visited the school's Lecture Hall on April 5 in rotating periods, either with participating classes or when free, to take part in a different sort of career day. NHS Schoo...

The Board of Education approved awarding a Hawley Elementary School roof restoration and replacement project to Garland/DBS as the project manager with Elite Roofing and Restoration, LLC, for $703,113...

For its third meeting in a row, on April 10 the Board of Education took up the topic of recently presented Transportation Task Force proposals. After roughly 40 minutes of public input and roughly an ...