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Much talk went into how much to cut at the recent Board of Finance and Legislative Council meetings, with town officials spending nearly four hours between the new meetings discussing cuts and the bottom line. This came after voters rejected both th...

For only the second time in the past decade, the budget has failed at referendum, and for the first time in 13 years, it wasn't just because voters opposed the school budget. Both the municipal and Board of Education budgets went down by approximatel...

Polls will be open from 6 am to 8 pm Tuesday, April 28 at Newtown Middle School so voters can decide the fate of the proposed 2026-27 municipal and education budgets. As is usual, The Newtown Bee is urging all eligible voters to go out and cast their...

Every year during the second week of April, this week April 12 through 18, the telecommunications personnel in the public safety community are honored. This week-long event, initially set up in 1981 by Patricia Anderson of the Contra Costa County She...

Cell phones have not only become an ubiquitous part of daily life, they have become almost an extension of the average person’s arm, rarely leaving their hand or their eyesight. This has unfortunately been extending to even time behind the wheel. The...

It’s no secret that journalism is not an easy field to be in these days. For many reasons, people do not trust most media figures. Staffs are shrinking, or working at skeletal levels. Employees are juggling more duties than ever, often taking on task...

By Connecticut State Statute Chapter 99 on Municipal Charters and Special Acts, towns are required to review and update their Town Charters every ten years; Newtown has been doing charter reviews every five years. The review of the charter is an imp...

The town’s attempts to divest itself of some properties, such as 3 Main Street, Kent and Shelton Houses at Fairfield Hills, and the Batchelder property, have all been continuing sagas going back years — in the case of the Batchelder property, 40 year...

With the announcement of the specifics of the 2026-27 budget, it has been revealed that this year’s budget contains four new town positions, one of which is a director of operations at a proposed salary of roughly $125,000. This position has kicked o...

The Legislative Council found itself presented with an interesting conundrum at its recent meeting on January 21. A resident approached the council for a second time after some talks with Councilman Ben Ruben, asking the town to consider a ban on sho...