For the first time in 38 years, the continental United States experienced a total solar eclipse on Monday, August 21. Despite Newtown not being in the line of totality, which stretched diagonally acro...

August 28, 1992 Much youthful creativity and premeditation has been expended over the years in creating false identification to circumvent the state law establishing the drinking age. In high sch...

The Newtown Yoga Festival is stretching its reach and, for the first time, will be offering four main headliners at the festival, scheduled for August 26, from 9 am to 4 pm, at the NYA Sports & Fitnes...

August is National Immunization Awareness Month, a time when state and local health officials are highlighting the health benefits of vaccination.The Newtown Bee to help spread the word.Immuni...

Professional athletes are generally in their prime before they reach 30 years old, and most retire well before 40. But many who use sports as a way to stay healthy and keep busy continue hitting retur...

Dozens of active duty police, military, and transit K-9 dogs and handlers from around the region will compete for top dog awards at the 2017 Western Connecticut Police K-9 Challenge on Saturday, Octob...

I run the Ashurst Academy of Irish Dance with my husband, Craig. We opened in 2016, so it's been a really exciting year. We teach kids as young as 3½ all the way up through championship dancers. Our o...

Supporting those who serve the nation is a way for individuals to give back to those who give so much. For three local teenagers, they came together to do just that by creating quick deploy paracord b...

Well, they may not have gone all the way in the Babe Ruth World Series down in Tennessee, but the U15 One Eyed Cats can still be mighty proud of their good showing this summer season. We congratulate ...

BETHEL - I didn't wait more than a few minutes to reach out to NewArts Director Michael Unger after learning late last winter that he had chosen to close his 2017 summer musical "two-fer" with the Ti...