Newtown High School’s girls’ basketball team is off to a winning start.

New England is now in the thick of the winter season as snowstorms and nor’easters pound the area. With temperatures hovering around freezing and the inches of snow piling up, New Englanders have been forced inside. For some, this season turns arena ice skating and ice hockey from indoor activities to fun outdoor pastimes.

Newtown High School’s winter indoor track teams are training as best they can to prepare for the possibility of competitions late in the campaign or when the anticipated spring outdoor season commences.

With a need for more space to spread out due to coronavirus-related regulations, Newtown High School’s gymnastics team jumped to find a new home after years of competing in the tight confines of Kinetic Kids in Oxford. The Nighthawks landed in their hometown at Vasi’s International Gymnastics, at 8 Pecks Lane.

The long winter wait is over, and high school sports got back on track with Newtown High School’s girls’ basketball team beating visiting Bethel 41-21 on February 8.

Mask-wearing for athletes is challenging under any circumstances, but for teams that play at a practically nonstop fast pace, it can only be even more difficult as a coronavirus-impacted season unfolds.

A lot has changed since for Newtown High School’s boys’ basketball team since the Nighthawks last were on the court.

Newtown High School’s defending conference and state champion dance team will have to wait another year for competition due to coronavirus restrictions resulting in the cancelation of what the Connecticut Department of Public Health deems “high risk” sports (cheerleading and wrestling are other winter sports in the same boat).