RIDGEFIELD - OrthoConnecticut/Danbury Orthopedics invites the public to a free presentation and discussion, "Not Your Parent's Surgery: How Orthopedic Technolog...
Occupation: I work as an emergency telecommunicator dispatcher for the Town of Newtown. I answer emergency and nonemergency calls and then dispatch to the p...
To keep traffic flowing on the eastern end of Sugar Street (Route 302), while workers labor to replace a deteriorated bridge there, the westbound and eastbound ...
NOTE: This is an updated and expanded version of a story first reported on Sunday, November 26, 2017.
By John Voket & Andrew Gorosko
The town's five v...
On November 27, members of the Newtown Lions Club Foundation, Inc presented the Salvation Army Newtown-Bethel Chapter a check for $1,200. The Newtown Lions Club...
The school district has released the 2017-18 Winter Performance Schedule for concerts and events for the public schools.
According to the Newtown Public Schools...
Nearly 800 hungry guests and attendees queued up and consumed 4,674 free pizza slices during the 14th Annual Destination Newtown for Thursday, November 16, at E...
On the occasion of what First Selectman Pat Llodra joked was her "exit interview" with The Newtown Bee, the walls and surfaces in her Newtown Municipal Center o...
Paul Shafer slid into a booth at Village Perk Café in Sandy Hook. From a stuffed folder he pulled out a laminated sorting guide filled with mayfly and stonefly ...
A "holly, jolly Christmas" often means many preparations, including dressing trees in lights. As they do each year, a Public Works Department crew spent time in...
Lamont Directs Flags To Half-Staff Friday In Honor Of Former US Senator Joseph LiebermanGovernor Ned Lamont is directing US and state flags in Connecticut to be lowered to half-staff from sunrise to sunset tomorrow as a mark of solemn respect for the memory and longstanding service of former US Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, who died Wednesday. HARTFORD — Governor Ned Lamont today announced that as a mark of solemn respect for the memory and longstanding service of former US Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, who died Wednesday, March 27, he is directing US and state flags in Connecticut lowered to half-staff from sunrise to sunset on the day of the former senator’s funeral, which has been scheduled for Friday, March 29.Accordingly, since no flag should fly higher than the US flag, all other flags, including state, municipal, corporate, or otherwise, should also be lowered during this same duration of time.The funeral service will be held at Congregation Agudath Sholom in Stamford.Lieberman, who nearly won the vice presidency on the Democratic ticket with Al Gore in the disputed 2000 election and who almost became Republican John McCain’s running mate eight years later, died in New York City on Wednesday due to complications from a fall, according to a statement issued by his family. He was 82.Lieberman and his wife, Hadassah, have four children.