Newtown-based dance school Ashurst Academy of Irish Dance recently sent two dancers to Dublin, Ireland, where they competed in the World Irish Dancing Championships.
The story of Connecticut’s Charles Goodyear and his long quest to invent commercially useful rubber — much of which was done in Sandy Hook — will be the focus of a Seymour Historical Society program on Sunday, May 18.
UPDATE: This year's event has been postponed to Sunday, June 1. || The Newtown Lions Club Great Pootatuck River Duck Race will be held on the Saturday after Memorial Day weekend this year. The event will again be centered around Heritage Park in Sandy Hook Center.
UPDATE (May 21, 2025): Ahead of inclement weather expected tomorrow night, organizers of Celebration of Kind Works are postponing the May 22 fundraiser to Thursday, May 29.
Ahead of Newtown's 14th Annual Strutt Your Mutt, the Newtown Board of Realtors is hosting an Animal Shelter Donation Drive to benefit Newtown Animal Shelter.
The Greater Danbury Chamber of Commerce Women’s Business Council will celebrate Nicole Maddox of Newtown as the 2025 Heart of Women Awardee, among others being honored, during its 2025 Conversations with Extraordinary Women.
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.
I remember when the spirit of 'Nicer in Newtown' meant keeping national politics out of our local discourse. It’s a surprise to see someone I’ve known as long as Peter start putting party affiliation ahead of the initiatives that matter to us here at home. Let’s get back to focusing on local solutions, not partisan politics.
A town administrator/operations manager will facilitate a more efficient management of town reseoruces and will result in cost avodiance in all departments. The position will payback much more than it costs.
