As 2017 comes to a close, the C.H. Booth Library continues to experience an influx of change, this time with its genealogy resources. Upon the recent move of its Genealogy Room from the building's sec...

In 1992 Doris Dickinson wrote a note on an unlined white piece of paper: roughly 25 years later, her daughter, De Egee, found the note. It was folded up and placed in a drawer of a dresser in her moth...

The Newtown Bee will be looking for the first child born to Newtown parents in January. This will continue a tradition entering its 57th year. The First Baby of Newtown 2018 will win for h...

Just the other day, I heard the phrase "bone of contention" as someone was describing a social club and how it seemed every year at the annual meeting the membership would argue over whether to instal...

Update: This article has been updated to clarify the Backstreet Boys' single "Drowning" was from the band's compilation album entitled The Hits - Chapter one, not their 2007 album Unbreakable ....

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Newtown native Lauren Russo is getting a first taste of her dream after years of hard work. Ms Russo, 21, was chosen recently to be part of the small student group to perform Alvin Ailey's classic Mem...

Malcolm McLachlan, a longtime resident of Newtown who now resides in Southbury, was inducted into the Connecticut Golf Hall of Fame on December 7 - a prestigious honor for someone has played a big rol...

Allison Irene Hornak is preparing her first solo gallery art show, "Fragments Of Work In Recession," the first installment of her multiyear graduate research. This exhibit will be presented in the thr...

Congratulations to Stephen Hutchinson of Byrd's Books in Bethel. A press release from the American Booksellers Association (ABA) states that on December 18 author James Patterson announced the names o...