Helping, outreach, camaraderie, pride, community service, and bond are just some of the words veterans use to describe their membership to Newtown’s Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 308. And as Post Adju...

It is Monday morning, February 17, and 3-year-old Genesis Fuentes is visiting the office of The Newtown Bee. Unlike most toddlers who would be racing to and fro, jabbering, or excitedly grabbing at th...

The Klondike Derby is a winter scouting skills and leadership competition that has been sponsored annually by Boy Scout units since 1949. Boy Scouts, Cub Scouts, and Venture Crews gather for the daylo...

Occupation: I’m president of Sibley Smart Copy, LLC, a content marketing firm. I do all kinds of copyediting and am a content generator for many companies. It is pretty much anything and everythin...

February 24, 1989 Two men, one of them a Sandy Hook resident, have been arrested in connection with a January 2 incident in which they allegedly harassed the American bald eagles that are winteri...

Under the tutelage of creative writing instructor Chris Belden, inmates of Garner Correctional Institute have published three editions of a literary magazine, Sentences. Issue number 4 is ready to be ...

Members of the Ben’s Bells Newtown (BBN) team visited Pequenakonck Elementary School in North Salem, N.Y., recently. A family session on January 31 had 140 students, teachers, and parents all working ...

Recently, a friend offered me some tortilla chips from a local restaurant. I declined, explaining that lately corn chips were making me congested. (What the heck?!)  That got me lamenting to him about...

Nearly a century separates the lives of the man recognized as Newtown’s first historian, Ezra Levan Johnson, and Newtown’s first official historian, Daniel Cruson, but uncanny similarities between the...

Survivors and supporters gathered at Newtown High School Monday night with one goal in mind: fighting cancer. Kicking off this year’s Relay For Life, which will take place from the evening of May 31 i...