• Newtown January 21, 2024 11:30 pm

    Newton schools will be closed again Monday as teachers remain on strike

    There will be no school in Newton, Massachusetts, again on Monday after negotiations over the weekend failed to produce an agreement or new contract, meaning teachers there will remain on strike to start the week. Despite three full days of mediation, the Newton Teachers Association (NTA) and the Newton School Committee failed to reach agreement on a new contract, city…

  • Newtown January 21, 2024 12:30 am

    Newton teachers remain on strike amid weekend negotiations

    Teachers in Newton, Massachusetts, remained on strike Saturday night after negotiations failed to produce an agreement on a new contract. Schools were closed Friday after the Newton Teachers Association voted overwhelmingly the day before to start the strike. A judge issued an injunction Friday evening ordering teachers to end their strike by 3 p.m. Sunday and get teachers back to…

  • Newtown January 19, 2024 9:19 pm

    No class in Newton for 1st school day of teacher strike; judge issues injunction

    There was no school for public school students in Newton, Massachusetts, Friday as the first full day of teachers’ strike got underway. Joined at times by colleagues from Boston and Somerville, Newton educators picketed outside of schools throughout the day, then held a rally outside City Hall Friday afternoon. The sides gathered for a mediation session but no agreement was…

  • Newtown December 25, 2023 6:05 am

    Woman in custody after shooting victim, barricading herself in Conn. home: police

    Police responded to a home on Boggs Hill Road in Newtown for a dispute call Christmas Eve and found a victim on the front porch suffering from multiple gunshot wounds, according to authorities. It happened around 7:45 p.m. Sunday night. Officers were able to pull the victim to safety, but the suspect went back inside the house, police said. The…

  • Maine October 19, 2023 2:04 pm

    14 cows from Maine dead after truck rolls over on I-84 in Conn.

    More than a dozen cows were dead when a cattle truck rolled over on a ramp on Interstate 84 in Newtown, Connecticut, early Thursday morning, authorities said. State troopers responded to the exit 10 off-ramp on I-84 West around 3:26 a.m. after the tractor-trailer rolled over. It was carrying 44 cows. A state veterinarian was called and a decision was…

  • Newtown August 1, 2023 3:00 pm

    17-year-old pulled from River in Conn. has died: police

    Police have identified a 16-year-old who was rushed to the hospital after Newtown Police recovered him from the Housatonic River last week. Police responded to the area of Silver Bridge around 2 p.m. Thursday after receiving a 911 call for help. They said a group of young people went into the water underneath the bridge. One member of the group…

  • Sandy Hook December 14, 2022 8:28 pm

    Newtown Marks 10 Years Since Sandy Hook Tragedy

    They would have been 16 or 17 this year. High school juniors. The children killed at the Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 14, 2012 should have spent this year thinking about college, taking their SATs and getting their driver’s licenses. Maybe attending their first prom. Instead, the families of the 20 students and six educators slain in the mass…

  • Newtown December 7, 2022 1:13 pm

    Missing Newtown Man Living Under Alias Found Dead Nearly 10 Years Later: PD

    A man who had been missing from Newtown for nearly 10 years was found dead in New York earlier this week and investigators said he had been living under a different name while he was missing. Officers in Newtown received a call on July 29, 2013, to check on Robert Hoagland after he failed to pick up a family member…

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