Spring and early summer 2020 have been a great challenge for everyone, Girl Scouts included, but local troops have found ways to adapt to the new reality of soc...
The Newtown Bee’s “Get To Know” series features a look at local buildings. Is there a building you would like to “get to know?” E-mail eliza@thebee.com with...
HARTFORD — The Connecticut Insurance Department seeks public comment at an informational public meeting on the rate proposals filed by Aetna, Anthem Health Plan...
William Craig Decker, 49, passed away unexpectedly at his home in Sandy Hook on Tuesday, August 25.
He was predeceased by his father, Donald W. Decker, and is s...
Some flowers are meant for picking and others are meant for picking a path for a stroll among them. Those would be sunflowers. Castle Hill Farm, 1 Sugar Lane, f...
What are newtownbee.com readers reading? Each week we compile a list of the most read posts published to our site. Here is a roundup of the week’s top five post...
With great sorrow we share that David Ferris, Sr, of Woodbury, passed away peacefully at his home on Tuesday, August 25, from complications of ALS. He was 71 ye...
To the Editor:
For over 30 years, the Newtown Lions have raffled off a vintage Mustang. The event has become a staple of our region. While many ticket buyers jo...
To the Editor:
CT newspapers have widely reported that Republican leadership were aware back in the April/May timeframe of video evidence of their candidate for...
To the Editor:
Eversource’s statement for August tells me my electric usage for this August was the same as August of last year and the bar chart shows it the s...
I commend our volunteers for being such assets to the town, and as a happy customer of Mitchell I'm not the least bit surprised they were well equipped to help with this situation. God bless each of you.
Property tax increases are a way of life as long as uncontrolled expenses are permitted. And there will never be a property tax roll back due to 'tax base expansion'. And as the deluge of New Newtowners are bidding up the cost of houses in town we can expect a nice bump in the next valuation cycle. Not to mention the disaster coming to Fairfield Hills which we will pay for through infrastructure improvements to support tenants and their children and cars.
