A 29-year-old New York man was held on $25,000 bond after he was pulled over for an unlit license plate Sunday.

Mary Andreotta directs the Newtown Choral Society in this 2006 photo. Ms Andreotta returns after a one-year sabbatical for her tenth season directing the local singing group.

After 50 years in public service, Joe Borst will step back from politics next week.

Which of the following arrests made last week is the more embarrassing? The first is that Stewart B. McKinney Jr., a Bridgeport Public School teacher, son of the Fourth District's late congressman Stewart McKinney and the brother of current state Senate Minority Leader John McKinney .

Comedian Andrew Kennedy says he's more of a storyteller than a joke-teller, but -- unlike that relative at Thanksgiving dinner who you're never sure how you're actually related -- Kennedy's stories are funny.

Residents came in droves to the Newtown Municipal Center to see Gov. M. Jodi Rell swear in the town's newly elected officials, who have fresh perspective and energy, according to state Rep.

Shannon Mcelwee , 25, of Hill Street, Shelton, was stopped by police on Commerce Road for not having a clearly displayed front marker plate.

The following dogs and cat are available for adoption from the Newtown pound, which is located at the end of Ethan Allen Road : Duchess DUCHESS is a 2-year-old female pit bull who is sweet good with children and other dogs, and loves to play.

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.