Newtown News

A Connecticut lawmaker says he's paid more than $390 in fines and his driver's license has been reinstated after he was pulled over by police a second time for illegally using a cell phone while driving.

Groundbreaking took place recently for the first phase of Summerview Square, a residential rental community with 63 units in the area of West Main, Summer and Jefferson streets in Norwalk.

A Blue Spruce Drive resident who was stopped for not wearing a seat belt in a "Click it or Ticket" detail on South Main Street, was subsequently arrested for driving with a suspended license, police said.

WIN members show off some of the items they have already received for this yeara TMs Thanksgiving Basket Program.

Polly Brody's newest book is "a darker manuscript," she says, than her earlier collections but it is not morbidly dark.

The summer of 1967 was ten weeks of fun activities culminating in the Labor Day Parade.

Uncertainty about the availability of the massive funding that would be needed to widen Interstate 84 between Route 8 in Waterbury and the New York State line has resulted in the state Department of Transportation no longer listing any date by which that highway widening project might start.

It'll be like a local "Antiques Roadshow" in town Sunday when Newtown appraiser Jay St.

The town's highest elected official -- Republican first selectman-elect Pat Llodra -- is going to be sworn into office by the state's highest elected official, Gov.

Police are looking for a person who fled the scene of a car accident after being rear ended Monday morning.

Local reaction was quick and vehement two decades ago, after the Department of Correction proposed the construction of a prison adjacent to the Fairfield Hills Hospital.

A number of students from the Newtown High School Marching Band and Color Guard were asked to stay home from school on Monday by the school officials.

Some people may consider a bubble bath, a hike in the woods or a day at the beach as a sort of therapy, but for Lynn Carroll's clients, it's a renovated barn from 1794 in the Sandy Hook section of Newtown.

The people have spoken and they voted Republican. As of Dec. 1, the Republicans will hold the majority of the Board of Selectman and Legislative Council -- and three of the seven Board of Education seats.

It wasn't band camp, but a band trip that is kept about 100 Newtown students home from school on Monday.

Newtown marching band and color guard students who went on a field trip to Allentown, Pa., this past weekend were asked to stay home Monday because eight students exhibited influenza-like symptoms.

Vandals trashed more than 30 gravesites at the St. Rose of Lima Cemetery in Sandy Hook on Halloween, toppling monuments, uprooting decorations and pulling American flags off veterans' graves.

Kevin Kinyon, 43, and Michael Caldwell, 39, feel they have a really good gig. In fact, they say they've had 80,000 of them since launching their Web site, www.GigMasters.com , in 1997.

Mile-a-minute vine -- the kudzu of the North -- may be less enveloping in 2010, thanks to grants from the state Department of Environmental Protection.

Mile-a-minute vine -- the kudzu of the north -- may be less enveloping in 2010, thanks to grants from the state Department of Environmental Protection.