Newtown Bridle Lands Association has a longstanding and rich history in town. While horses may be a big part of the lives of NBLA members and their mission, for nearly half a century the group has also played a significant role in many other forms of recreation that benefit residents with various other interests.
Learn how Newtown Continuing Education’s Summer Academic Enrichment program helped students shine through academic morning lessons and special enrichment activities this summer.
Botsford Fire Rescue is well into planning for its annual Botsford Bash, a community BBQ and fundraiser returning to the company’s firehouse. Organizers recently added to more locations where the public can purchase tickets for the raffle.
The 2025 Tuesday Tunes Concert Series, an annual offering presented by Newtown Parks & Recreation and Friends of The C.H. Booth Library, has been offering free weekly midday concerts at Dickinson Park since early July.
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.
