Toni and Tom Catalina welcome family, friends, and “anyone who comes to the door” to their Butterfield Road home during the Christmas season and beyond, when Mr Catalina’s expansive Christmas village ...

Competence and character are words used to describe written and audio contest winners in the recent Pilot’s Pen and Voice of Democracy student essay contests through Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 308....

December 21, 1990 Sewer avoidance outside the proposed sewer district and sewers within it are both in Newtown’s future, First Selectman Zita McMahon said following a special meeting on the subje...

A little bee reminded us this week to thinks of others. A bumblebee garden ornament showed up Monday morning, planted next to the door of the Bee office (carefully enshrouded within a plastic bag, whi...

Occupation: I’m a writer, and retired from The Newtown Bee in 2006. I worked at the Brookfield Journal before that, and prior to that I taught English to middle schoolers at private schools in Mar...

RIDGEFIELD — Everybody’s holiday season would shine much brighter with a performance of Wreck The Halls, Ridgefield Theatre Barn’s current yuletide offering.  This unabashedly bawdy, irreverent holida...

A solo trumpet player, Massillon E. LaPorte of Montreal, standing on the steps of Trinity Episcopal Church, sent notes into the misty night air as people entered the church Monday evening for a solemn...

Local students in grades 6-12 were invited to attend an event at C. H. Booth Library on Wednesday, December 2, to celebrate the movie release of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2, which opened in th...

Andy the horse is what most people remember after visiting the Second Company Governor’s Horse Guard (2GHG) at their headquarters in Newtown. Andy, a 16-year-old Shire mixed-breed horse stands about 1...

Sylvie McGowan was caught completely by surprise by friends, family, and new admirers when she was named The 2015 Hearts of Hope Ambassador of Hope last month. A Newtown native who now lives in Danbur...