Sawyer Fredericks, the winner of the eighth season of The Voice, will headline the opening event of Newtown Arts Festival on Friday, September 15, at 6:30 pm. T...
Newtown resident Chef Plum stood outside of Nouveau Monde Wine Bar + Bistro on August 1 to film a new episode of his television segment Restaurant Road Trip, wh...
The C.H. Booth Library hosted its first Lava Lip Gloss Workshop on Wednesday, July 19, in the Meeting Room. Sixth to tenth grade students were invited to make l...
Katherine Landry and Robert Geckle were married on July 22, 1967, by the Right Reverend Robert Kickham in Our Lady of Mercy Church, in Belmont, Mass. A receptio...
August 7, 1992
Hello: This is the press speaking. Oh, don't misunderstand. It is not the press as you probably think of it, that mass of reporters armed wi...
A Middlebury woman who walked a dog being held at the town's Animal Control Center at Fairfield Hills, has sued the town and others over that dog having bit her...
Congratulations to the U15 One Eyed Cats baseball team, which is heading to the Babe Ruth World Series next week! Newtown Bee "Snapshot" column and mentioned th...
Tryouts for Newtown High School (NHS) fall sports teams will be held on Thursday, August 24, for all sports with the exception of football, which is to take pla...
Representatives from the Candlewood Fencing Center of Danbury demonstrated the basics of fencing to seven children, aged 5 through 12, and their parents in the ...
With navigation devices pretty much standard for travel, the days of drivers keeping eyes out for landmarks and street signs are virtually unnecessary when out ...
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.
They have their hands in all their 'neighbors' wallets.