Newtown Parks & Recreation is planning to present the second program in the 5th Annual Claris Construction Inc Summer Jam Children's Concert Series, a movie night planned for Tuesday, June 27, at Fair...

It has got to be pretty unique to participate in an event on a track at Lime Rock Park in Lakeville. To race a car made essentially from scratch is all the more impressive, and some of Newtown High Sc...

The Newtown Kennel Club came under my radar for the first time as a staff reporter for The Newtown Bee. I was sent to cover the club's annual awards dinner on April 16, 1986, at the Hawley Manor Inn o...

Multiple canopies visible from Wasserman Way drew drivers' gazes toward the annual Newtown Farmers Market at Fairfield Hills in its new location - on a lawn just northeast of the main entrance to Fair...

Thousands of food fanatics of all ages piled into Fairfield Hills for the first Newtown Food Truck Festival, on June 17. More than 20 trucks serving pretty much anything deep-fried, greasy, and downri...

You haven't missed all of it yet: The US Department of Agriculture and the US Department of the Interior designated June 19-25, 2017, as "National Pollinator Week" to address the issue of declining po...

June 26, 1992 The latest opening date for the Garner Correctional Institute is January, if a partial opening does not occur earlier. The jail will fill with 400 inmates and add another 300 in the...

If you only know Michael Franti as the frenetic frontman to the group Spearhead, and by the infectious 2010 "Say Hey (I Love You)" - then you don't know Franti.The Newtown Bee ahead of his June 27 set...

Occupation: I'm a lieutenant for the City of Norwalk Fire Department. This past April marked 15 years I've been there. From a pretty young age, I knew I wanted to do it, because my father and my u...

There is nothing good about ticks. Here in Connecticut we live in the birthplace of Lyme disease. Just about everyone I know, and their dogs, have had Lyme disease, at least once, if not multiple time...