The Bee Publishing Company offices will be closed on Thursday, July 4, in observance of Independence Day. Readers are reminded that editorial and advertising deadlines for the July 5, 2019 issue of The Newtown Bee will be affected. If you want to take a chance at Bee's Bucks, you'll also have an early deadline.

First Selectman Daniel Rosenthal has launched a new program that has him walking and talking with constituents on around midday every other Friday, until August 30. He announced this week that he will also be available for an early evening Walk & Talk on Tuesday, June 25.

Police reports covering Newtown, Conn., for the period of June 12-18, 2019.

Newtown’s office of Social Services is relocating.

Four ramps providing access on and off Interstate 84 are scheduled to have overnight closures this week, according to State Representative Mitch Bolinsky. The temporary closures have been announced as part of ongoing bridge maintenance and paving on the interstate.

The developer of a rental apartment complex at Covered Bridge Road in Hawleyville is seeking Planning and Zoning Commission (P&Z) approval to increase the number of dwellings that it would build on the site, which is near the Exit 9 interchange of Interstate 84.

Planning and Zoning Commission (P&Z) members are reviewing a local health care facility’s proposal to install more than 2,200 solar panels to produce electricity that would cover most of the facility’s power demand.

On the same day 412 Newtown High School seniors walked across a stage and officially became high school graduates, The Newtown Bee reached out through its social media outlets. We asked readers this week to share the advice they would offer to those graduating from high school this year.

A developer’s proposal to create zoning regulations, which would provide for a “commercial design district” in Sandy Hook in the area near the Exit 11 interchange of Interstate 84, with the intent of building a restaurant with drive-through window service there, has drawn some heavy opposition from residents living in that area.

A section of Mt Pleasant Road near Johnnie Cake Lane was closed to through-traffic for several hours on Saturday, June 8, as police investigated a serious two-vehicle head-on collision.