Dozens of residents were disappointed last year when hopes for an ice skating rink as part of the new community center were quashed. For families involved in the Newtown hockey program, as well as tho...

It is tiring to feel compelled once again to bring attention to an issue that should have been addressed before the most recent mass shooting; and long before 26 people were murdered at Sandy Hook Sch...

If taxpayers quickly glance at the bottom lines of the proposed 2018-19 municipal and school budgets before and after the Board of Finance made its final recommendations and sent those proposals off t...

Newtown has long restaurant inspection scores.This week's editorial was contributed by Associate Editor John Voket. been known as a community where residents and visitors alike can al...

Over the 15 years Newtown has hosted a Relay For Life, the fund- and awareness-raising non-sporting community building event to benefit the American Cancer Society and its research, outreach, and educ...

A housing boom is underway in Newtown that includes multifamily and mandated affordable housing, but which challenges established neighborhoods and the ecosystem. This balancing act between fiscal des...

In a show of love and compassion that has come to epitomize our town and schools, hundreds of valentines are on their way to troops around the nation and overseas: from Newtown, with love.americanlegi...

We are a world of givers. Nearly $400 billion in donations provided nonprofit charities around the world with funding in 2016, an increase of 2.7 percent, according to charitynavigator.com, and an inc...

It seems the C.H. Booth Library Board of Trustees was premature in issuing a press release earlier this month, announcing the start date of a new library director. Douglas Lord was to fill the positio...

We strive in this town to develop positive attitudes through social-emotional learning programs for our youth, and increased awareness of the less fortunate. Kindness programs abound in our schools an...