Newtown’s quirky, beloved weekly print edition becomes latest victim of the coronavirus pandemic. In an editorial published Thursday, Publisher R. Scudder Smith, whose family has owned the paper since 1879, told readers that the paper would discontinue its print product “for the time being.”
Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and Free Speech Systems, the parent company of his fringe right-wing website Infowars, must pay about $100,000 in his adversary's legal expenses as a penalty stemming from a defamation suit against them.
New Britain's Gaffney Bennett Public Relations says it's added a North Carolina-based communications executive to operate there and with its existing team in New York City.