High School team member faces change annually, but for the first time in six years Newtown High School's girls' swimming and diving lineup has a new one - actually two - at the helm. Becky Osborne tak...

If things play out as they did last fall, this year's season-opening game could ultimately prove to be the Newtown High School football team's most challenging game until the postseason. That's becaus...

The last time members of Newtown High School's girls' soccer team walked off the field following a game it was after a tough loss to Simsbury in penalty kicks during the first round of the Class LL st...

Newtown High School's cheerleading squad will spend the next several weeks pumping up the crowd along the sidelines of football and, later, basketball games, while practicing for its own competition s...

Traditionally one of the best teams in the South-West Conference, Newtown High School's girls' volleyball team is striving to be the best squad in the SWC this fall. Not that the Nighthawks don't aim ...

Four years ago, after the Sandy Hook tragedy, Jim Blaess, girls' soccer coach at Portsmouth High School in Rhode Island, reached out to Newtown and Marc Kenney, coach of Newtown High School's girls' s...

Where can you find athletes with eight decades of age separation competing in the same event? The 11th Annual Newtown Road Race & Newtown Prevention Council Kid's Run.plattsys.com. Runners ranging in ...

Baseball, by and large, has had the same characteristics - with someone throwing the ball, a person attempting to bat it, then running while opponents field the ball - since its early days, dating all...

Campers in the Newtown Youth Wrestling Summer Camp - which ran from August 15, to August 19, at NYA Sports & Fitness - spent roughly half the week learning wrestling lessons and life tips from former ...

Seth Willis doesn't get the taste of glory running backs, quarterbacks, and receivers have during football season. But the Newtown High School offensive tackle, who is heading into his senior year, ce...