After reading about the company’s 80th Anniversary celebration and planned expansion last year in The Newtown Bee, US Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) announced March 11 that Aldine Metal Products in New Milford is his latest “Murphy’s Monday Manufacturer.”

Shortts Farm is again starting its Community Supported Agriculture program, in which residents purchase "shares" and receive a basket of produce and other items each week.

A Canada goose showed up on Hawley Pond nearly five months ago. Injured and alone, he has formed a tentative friendship with one couple who may have saved his life by paying attention to him when other geese would not.

What started as one Sandy Hook mom’s quest to help find a way for her children to “get involved” has led to an outpouring of support, and more members of the community can help join the effort to aid Bridgeport’s homeless.

Throughout the winter, girls and boys competed on the youth basketball hardwood in Newtown Recreation and travel league play. Behind all of the smiles that came with baskets scored and friendships made was a lot of devotion to make this learning, fun-filled, and competitive atmosphere for rising athletes possible.

To create the magic of Newtown High School’s upcoming musical, Mary Poppins, on the school’s stage, students in the production crew have been working on the play’s scenes and props.

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

Associate Editor John Voket spoke with "the thinking man's talk show host," Dick Cavett, ahead of the debut of "Dick Cavett Presents..." at The Ridgefield Playhouse.