You have heard it before, “Every picture tells a story.” And what a story 2020 has to tell. We bring to you, in the pages of this issue, a number of photo packages made up of pictures taken by the sta...

We continue this year with the tradition begun by the late Newtown Bee Editor Paul Smith many years ago, that of printing the Christmas story, according to St Luke, in the issue closest to December 25...

The number of people currently working inside Bee Publishing Company’s office and printing facility has been reduced — temporarily, we hope — while Newtown and the world continue to contend with the c...

In our preoccupation with surviving the novel coronavirus and its fallout, we seem to have forgotten what we swore we would Never Forget: 12/14. Meanwhile, 26 families directly affected that December ...

Have you ever found yourself out of town the one day at the beginning of each December when the Newtown Youth and Family Services’ Holiday Festival is scheduled, and wished you had been able to partak...

We search our hearts this Thanksgiving for what fills us with gratitude. Many among us suffer in myriad ways, families and friends are separated by pandemic restrictions, and we easily forget that jus...

Go crazy! Whoop it up! Join in raucous merrymaking! That’s the directive the idiom “Paint the town red!” encourages. But on November 12, Newtown was painted red — on the state COVID-19 data map. And t...

The State of Connecticut does not usually allow voting by absentee ballot unless a person qualifies due to active duty military service, an illness that prevents in-person voting, absence from town du...

We know now who will be representing us in Hartford, and whether or not your chosen candidate came out on top, supporting them and speaking with — not at — them to make known your concerns will provid...

Local candidates close to hearth, heart, and home add challenge to picking one over the other. This year, two of the three seats representing Newtown in the General Assembly at Hartford are contested....