Many of the bills I mentioned in are coming up for votes in the House of Representatives this week, among them House Bill 5362, which seeks to add municipal pounds or shelters to the state's shelter ...

Grace Anne Herrick shared stories with St Rose of Lima School students recently about her work to create a nonprofit, called Grace's Promise Incorporated, which focuses on providing preschool educatio...

The official Brazilian Carnival and New Orleans's Mardi Gras may have both ended back in February, but that did not stop party-goers at the Newtown Senior Center from busting out their best dance move...

April Fool's Day seemed to come a day late this year, with chilly weather and a substantial amount of snowfall on the second day of this month. I understand that some drivers had spring fever and remo...

Sydney Eddison was just a child when she discovered her love of writing poetry. While attending a small school in Watertown, from first through fourth grade, she did not let her difficulty reading sto...

April 2, 1993 Connecticut Supreme Court justices are considering Richard Crafts' appeal of his murder conviction stemming from a jury's 1989 finding that he intentionally killed his wife, Helle, ...

Occupation: I've been the owner of Newtown Florist for 15 years. I started working in the floral industry a long time ago, back in the 1970s. When my husband was looking for a business to start, h...

April 9, 1993 The vernal equinox didn't do it. Neither did daylight saving time. It took the opening day of baseball season to convince us that the season had changed. It was a beautiful day, and...

When The Newtown Bee caught up with They Might Be Giants co-founder John Linnell, he was enjoying a brief break in between tour legs.I Like Fun, a brilliantly produced set of material ...

Those familiar with the "This Little Piggy" nursery rhyme by Mother Goose may remember that some pigs go to market and some stay home, but for two not-so-little pigs rescued from being slaughtered, th...