The new Community Center saw its biggest crowds since opening day as vendors, instructors, and hundreds of flexible devotees descended on the 2019 Newtown Yoga Festival August 24.

Newtown’s Health District Director and the founder of the Newtown Parent Connection are teaming up to remind residents about International Overdose Awareness Day and Recovery Month.

Two local residents formerly active with Relay For Life in Newtown are organizing a new event to honor cancer patients and survivors, remember those lost to cancers, and raise funds for the American Cancer Society.

As Newtown weathers the hot and humid days of August, its local Social Services agency, along with a statewide network of support services, are already looking toward the cold that will descend on the region soon enough, bringing with it the challenge of keeping up with mounting heating costs.

A former and current Connecticut Attorney General are calling for stepped-up FDA scrutiny after a Yale University study was released July 30 tying the hugely popular Juul tobacco vaping system to new health concerns.

The Seventh Annual Newtown Yoga Festival is scheduled to take place Saturday, August 24, from 9 am to 4 pm, at a new location this year: Newtown Community Center.

In a letter to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) on July 30 demanded swift action after dangerous levels of PFAS were detected in bottled water sourced from Spring Hill Dairy in Haverhill, Massachusetts.

To help address the current emergency blood shortage, all who donate blood or platelets with the American Red Cross through August 29 will receive a $5 Amazon.com Gift Card via e-mail. Among the upcoming Fairfield County blood drives, one is scheduled in Newtown on Sunday, August 4.

Each year since the locally-based NewArts nonprofit has provided its unique ARC training as a component to cast and crew members involved with annual summer musical projects, program founders have come closer and closer to transforming the training designed to instill grit, resilience, and posttraumatic growth into a curriculum that can be used in non-theatrical and educational settings.

The Avielle Foundation’s 2019 Brainstorm Experience, Season Two, will continue July 24 with Zak Ebrahim dropping in for a talk at Edmond Town Hall.