Newtown News

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.

Only the vehicles parked out front hint at the age of this Edmond Town Hall photo in this postcard loaned to The Bee by Chris Spiro.

A Derby woman was arrested for driving under the influence after Newtown police investigated a complaint of erratic operation on Route 25 Sunday, according to a police report.

Its head was a small sack stuffed with straw, with eyes, nose, and mouth painted on it to represent a face.

I am running as part of a team for the Board of Selectman with my running mate, Joe Hemingway, and a team of Democratic candidates.

The following animals are available for adoption from the Newtown pound, which is located at the end of Ethan Allen Road : Delilah DELILAH is a female Shar-Pei who enjoys long walks and will sniff just about everything in sight.

On Saturday, there's a Hoe of a show going on. At 7 p.m. the acoustic string band with that garden tool name will perform alongside musician Katie Wilson at Edmond Town Hall Theatre at 45 Main St.

Trash in a garbage truck caught fire Tuesday morning, forcing police to shut down Main Street for three hours after learning there was a chance the truck could explode.