When neighbors suffer, Newtown has a history of stepping up to help; where we have been the recipients of generosity beyond imagining, we have worked to pay it forward. The world now presents us, bles...

As a man accustomed to scanning spreadsheets full of discouraging numbers — about rising costs and diminishing revenues — Governor Dannel P. Malloy was uncharacteristically buoyed this week by a stati...

The Planning and Zoning Commission is currently engaging in a strangely inverted process of overseeing a development proposal for the area of Exit 10 at Church Hill, Edmond, and Commerce Roads. Instea...

More than 125 people turned up at the Rock Ridge Country Club Saturday morning for a breakfast fundraiser in support of the Third Annual National Vigil for All Victims of Gun Violence, which will take...

As the natural world leans into another equinox and launches all its spectacular protocols for shutting things down for another winter, we find ourselves taking another tack. We staged an exuberant ce...

The Labor Day Parade intends to honor Newtown’s artists on Monday, marching this year to the theme of “Celebrating the Fine Art of Newtown — Honoring SCAN.” SCAN, of course, is the Society of Creative...

The convocation on Monday of educators and school district staff at Newtown High School was true to its name, which according to its Latin root (convocare) is a great calling together. The Board of Ed...

We fear that the sadness we felt this week when we first heard of the death of Julia Wasserman will be more than a match for our ability to cheer ourselves up with memories of her for a long time to c...

Twenty years ago, Newtown’s Planning and Zoning Commission implemented an innovative zoning concept to address its goal at the time of encouraging diverse yet compatible uses in Sandy Hook Center whil...

It is hot. It is humid. It is summer, and half of Newtown is without a pool. It has been nine years since the pool at Dickinson Park was drained for the final time, with health officials and Parks and...