Local viewers of the Food Network program Chopped Junior had a great surprise waiting for them earlier this month. The season's second episode, which debuted May 3, featured a young cook from ...

I found a dead bluebird in a nest box by the barn. She lay intact, her head and neck crooked in the corner of the box where she died. Cool blue. A bit of sky enclosed in a pine box.Those Of The Forest...

This week marks a truly significant moment in the history of The Newtown Bee, as longtime Editor Curtiss Clark closes this chapter of his life. As a cat that has found a comfy cushion in this office f...

Since 2000, a quilting group has been meeting twice each month at Christ the King Lutheran Church. Its members spend time working with donated materials, and a few supplies they purchase or are paid f...

Bob Virgalla, one of nearly four dozen of Newtown Volunteer Ambulance Corps Emergency Medical Technicians, has a motto that is espoused by virtually all of his local colleagues: "Treat the patient, ta...

May 24, 1991 A ninety-pound case containing $1 million in rare European jewelry was reportedly stolen from a salesman's car when he stopped briefly at the Blue Colony Diner on Friday, May 17. "We...

Occupation: I'm the director of planning for Newtown. I've been in this position as director for eight years. I've been working with the town for 12 years. My background ins environmental biology....

Linda Jones looked across the church hall that had filled with nearly 250 guests. Her organization, Families United in Newtown (FUN), held its annual benefit concert with dinner, dancing, raffles, and...

As a Newtown Middle School eighth grader, Chris Lafky found information, camaraderie, and support as he watched his mother Mary Ann Jacob take to the Relay For Life podium as the event's Honorary Surv...

The scene sounds like a sad country song: residents soaked by a sudden rain huddled beneath jackets or umbrellas, running for shelter. Many worked their way through a traffic-clogged Sandy Hook Center...