Spreading like wildflowers is an effort to enhance the High Meadow at Fairfield Hills.meadow seeding project done in June. On Wednesday, October 4, Conservation Commissioners, Restoration Study Group ...

Among the many visitors enjoying idyllic Fairfield Hills trails and grounds is one unwelcome guest: mile-a-minute vine. Brian Connolly, PhD, while doing survey work on the Fairfield Hills meadow in Au...

On a recent trip to the Hudson River Valley to tour the Vanderbilt Mansion Hyde Park in Dutchess County, N.Y., I learned about the various roles horses played in a late 19th Century Gilded Age estate....

As it was the fifth Saturday of the month, Newtown Rotary Club members and Reed Intermediate School students were busy volunteering at the Dorothy Day Hospitality House on September 30.its website, an...

Candice Sousa was basically mauled by her K-9, a 5-year-old German shepherd, Pi, as onlookers got a look into what training a police dog is about, during the Western Connecticut Police K-9 Challenge o...

Brothers and Newtown High School graduates Brock and Dr Scott Chimileski are now living together in Boston, and both found similar interests in science when studying separately at the University of Co...

New York City professional dancer George Maderski instructed the first Ballroom Dance Class at the Newtown Senior Center on Monday, October 2. Seniors were taught the basic steps and then practiced th...

December 14, 2017 will mark five years without loved ones for families of children and educators killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School. The Newtown Bee will share remembrances of victims of 12/14...

October 16, 1992 About 600 people clustered together in groups of 25 to take the tour last Saturday of Garner Correctional Institution. The prison is scheduled to open next month. After closely i...

December 14, 2017 will mark five years without loved ones for families of children and educators killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School. The Newtown Bee will share remembrances of victims of 12/14...