The Newtown Bee has one more edition before the November 3 election, and we expect to receive many letters to the editor endorsing candidates and addressing issues of importance to voters.

In an effort to be fair, The Bee will restrict political letters published in the October 30 edition of the paper to positive expressions of endorsement or support for particular candidates or parties. Because it will be the final edition before the election, letters containing allegations or negative representations of opposing candidates or parties that might ordinarily elicit a rebuttal or response in a subsequent issue will not be published.

All letters for next week’s print edition are due by noon sharp Wednesday, October 28.

We encourage those planning to submit letters next week to send them as early as possible, however. Because the unprecedented volume of political and other types of Letters to the Editor coming into The Bee in this local election season may exceed the available space in the newspaper for their publication, some of the letters received for publication may not appear in next week's print edition. All letters will continue to be published online at newtownbee.com.

We will print dozens of letters next week. Letters will be selected for print publication on a first-received, first-published basis. We will limit letters of endorsement to three pages next week. Once that limited is exceeded, any additional letters received will be printed online only. If not all letters appear in print, we will indicate to our readers that more letters appear online.

We also issue a final reminder that letters of endorsement (like Thank You letters) are limited to 300 words. That’s the body of the letter; it does not include the salutation or the closing/signature lines.