Al Cramer said people sometimes ask him what the secret to a long marriage is. He and his wife, Coke — likely one of Newtown’s longest-tenured couples — tied the knot 66 years ago. “The secret is... broad range of interests,” Mr Cramer said while sitting with his wife in their Partridge Lane home, a house full of reminders of so many interests, notably in photos from their trips together.

Read about Newtown's newest liquor and wine purveyor.

When it comes to the architecture of music that immediately signals to millions of listeners all over the world that it is something from the Progressive Rock genre, chances are that Steve Hackett either created it, or had some influence on it.

As friends and family members dined together, children jumped in a bounce house, tractor-pulled hayrides were underway, and dancers swung around each other with flair at the 44th Ukrainian Festival, hosted at Paproski’s Castle Hill Pumpkin Patch on September 15.

Newtown, from a cat's point of view.

News as published in the Newtown Bee 25, 50, 75, and 100 years ago.

Local artist and Society of Creative Arts of Newtown (SCAN) co-founder Ruth Newquist is exhibiting (and selling) a series of New York City streetscapes she has created over the past two decades through the end of September in the Community Room at the C.H. Booth Library.

This column focuses on the toxic blue-green algae crisis that recently made national headlines as canines across the United States became fatally ill following a recreational swim in affected lakes, ponds, and rivers. Several of these canines reportedly died just minutes after exiting the water.