Old Sturbridge Village raised the frame on a new cabinetmaking shop March 31, marking the first addition in more than 50 years to the village’s Common.
Planning to vote at the April 27 Budget Referendum? Then 'Watch & Learn' during our special live webcasts highlighting two major spending authorizations you will be making.
Multiple Grammy-winning jazz guitar icon John Scofield is describing his upcoming socially distanced shows at the Ridgefield Playhouse like the musical equivalent of a tightrope walk.
The Charlotte Helen Bacon (CHB) Foundation is organizing a free StoryWalk on the Fairfield Hills campus from Saturday, April 10, to Sunday, April 18.
StoryWalk is an innovative and delightful way for ...
Want to be completely informed when you vote in this year’s budget referendum? Tune in at 5:30 pm Monday, April 5 and 12 to learn about the Sandy Hook Permanent Memorial and Emergency Communications system improvements.
Flagpole Photographers Camera Club invites the public to join members for the club’s April events, which includes a portrait photography presentation and a monthly competition.
Julia Gerace will lead ...
The Mark Twain Library and Redding League of Women Voters present the second installment of the series “Conversations: Truth, Myth & Democracy” on Thursday, April 1.
C.H. Booth Library has scheduled three lectures that will continue the Main Street institution's concerted efforts toward diversity, equity and inclusion programming.
CORRECTION: I misrepresented the Senior Services decrease from 2023-24 to 2026-27. Between 2024-24 budget and 2024-25 budget there was an accounting practice change. Certain employee benefits that had been in department budgets were centralized. Comparing to anything prior to 2024-25 is apples to oranges. My mistake
Considering 2025-26 vs 2026-27, combining the reductions to Senior Services and Social Services page (166 and 170) there is a $36,628 reduction. The majority of that is the cut in Newtown funding to HART Transit ($26,845), which the BoF increased to the level requested by HART Transit
Jim, Thank you for reinforcing the decision to continue printing these installments. I also look forward to continuing to quantify the environmental impact associated with each one. I will continue to work on the math.
First, I would like to say thank you to Jim as the editor of the Bee for refuting your math and defending my right to free speech.
Second, the NFL uses roman numerals to identify the Super Bowl game - does that mean the NFL is only reaching out to the elites?
Third, I am currently the Vice-Chair of the SEC. It was time for a change in leadership, and I wanted to make sure the committee could continue to grow and to help make Newtown a better place.
The Newtown Bee welcomes the letters from all letter writers regardless of their political stance or how much paper and ink printing their letters uses (and by the way, your math is off). It seems to me that if the concern is a liberal writer taking space in our letters page every other week, the better way to deal with that is to write letters from a conservative mindset rather than attacking and attempting to discourage others from writing. Responses should address the points raised by the writer, not the fact that they chose to write.
24,619 printed pages have been devoted to this diatribe — more than an acre of paper. Beyond the cost to The Bee, with this installment #22 (XXII for the elites), the series has consumed roughly 400 pounds of newsprint (about 2–3 trees), a few thousand gallons of process water, and on the order of a couple hundred kilograms of CO₂e — all to keep re-litigating the same point. I guess I would have expected more out of the chair from the Sustainable Energy Commission chair.
