Occupation: I am a licensed esthetician, business owner of Pure Skin By Kat, and founder of Newtown Beauty Suites. I opened up my first studio in August of ...
After the tragic and incomprehensible events of December 14, 2012 (known in town as 12/14) that left 20 first grade students and six faculty members at Sandy Ho...
Each week we compile a list of some of the recent most-read stories published at newtownbee.com. Here is a roundup of the week’s top stories, based on the numbe...
Eric Stephen Qualey passed away in a tragic car accident on the morning of December 31, 2022 in Richmond, Rhode Island. The family is heartbroken and devastated...
Jeane M. Roberts died peacefully Sunday, December 18, 2022. For almost 97 years she set out to make the world a better place. Her life was filled with family, f...
Ervin L. Story, beloved husband of Sharon Ann Loughman Story, passed away peacefully on December 23, 2022, under the care of hospice at Charlotte Hungerford Hos...
September 21, 1929 to January 8, 2023
Marianne Muskus of Newtown, Connecticut, passed away peacefully at Regional Hospice in Danbury on Sunday, January 8, ...
A few days ago — on January 10 — Connecticut’s legal consumer cannabis businesses opened and began purveying an intoxicating array of products for legal consump...
To the Editor,
The wonderful thing about America is that almost everybody knows how to read. The sad thing is that people don’t know what to read.
We sharpen ou...
To the Editor:
Last year, the American people rejected extreme election deniers up and down the ballot. But we were unable to win every fight, and a tremendous ...
Rejecting or approving town budgets has nothing to do with 'smart' growth. These budgets are expected to grow appropriately as cost of services increases.
The status quo is clearly not appealing to voters who rejected the school budget at first and only narrowly approved the town's budget. Smart growth is the name of the game here. That would be growth that respects our past, retains and ensures our vibrancy, and simultaneously widens our tax base.
The Newtown Conservation Coalition is basically a NIMBY snake oil salesman. They jump from cause to cause with the sole goal of making sure nothing changes. It is only a matter of time before they lower their threshold, get to acres, and want an accessory building, not in "their" town. They will bust out a new poster of a bulldozer tramping over a "historic" stone wall and protest in front of any town meeting.