Catch up with stories published to newtownbee.com this past weekend here.

This month, Connecticut’s Beardsley Zoo welcomed more than 13,000 buzzing bees to its menagerie of wildlife onsite thanks to Newtown residents Zosia Teraszkiewicz, 15, and Thaddeus Teraszkiewicz, 17.

The 2021 Newtown Arts Festival began with musical performances on Friday, September 17, and continued through the weekend.

The C.H. Booth Library hosted the Newtown Nonprofit Council’s latest meeting through Zoom on September 20. On the agenda was the “News and Views” discussion as well as a look into the new volunteer website called Get Connected.

Newtown, from a cat's point of view.

Decades after Henrik John Ibsen's Nora left audiences wondering what happened to the woman who left her husband and children to find herself, "A Doll's House, Part Two," now on stage at The Sherman Playhouse, offers some answers.

After former Commission on Aging (COA) Chair Anna Wiedemann announced in July that she would be moving out of Newtown and therefore stepping down from the board, the group appointed Anne Rothstein as its new chair.

Newtown news of 25, 50. 75, 100, and 125 years ago, from the archives of The Newtown Bee.

Catch up with the top most-read stories published at newtownbee.com of the week.

Heather Symes is The Newtown Bee's most recent Snapshot profile.