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June 22, 2001 EDITORIAL INK DROPS — SUPPORT A FRILL: THE MEETING HOUSE PIPE ORGAN: If you believe a community should spend money only on necessities, don’t read this. If your personal vision for Newtown has no frills, avert your eyes. If the fro...

June 15, 2001 EDITORIAL INK DROPS — THE CLASS OF 2001: If there’s one thing we’ve learned here at The Bee after 124 years of covering community news, it’s that everyone has a story. And almost everyone’s story is remarkable. We have preoccupied ourse...

June 8, 2001 EDITORIAL INK DROPS — ONE FOR THE HISTORY BOOKS: The area of Newtown has remained 60 square miles throughout the town’s history, but just 75 years ago, this was a much smaller place. So it was possible for a single local personage t...

June 1, 2001 EDITORIAL INK DROPS — BIG DECISIONS FOR THE FAMILY OF NEWTOWN: Newtown is a growing family. The combination of the quality of life here and the availability of large tracts of land for development over the past ten years set the sta...

May 25, 2001 EDITORIAL INK DROPS — THE FAIRFIELD HILLS DEAL IS A GOOD DEAL FOR NEWTOWN: The town concluded its talks with the state this week over the terms of the proposed state sale of Fairfield Hills to Newtown. In announcing those terms on M...

May 18, 2001 EDITORIAL INK DROPS — PROM NIGHT 2001: The Newtown High School Prom is Friday night, and hundreds of teenagers in gowns and tuxedoes will drive off into the evening, some in stretch limos, assuming a level of social sophistication t...

May 11, 2001 HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER of Ed Kelleher. * * * * * Haynes Construction Company of Seymour this week became the leading candidate to build the proposed 5/6 school in Newtown after submitting the lowest bid among nine competing companies. H...

May 4, 2001 EDITORIAL INK DROPS — CHARTER REVISION: EVOLUTION OR UPHEAVAL? From its inception last fall, Newtown’s Charter Revision Commission has shown a high degree of independence — particularly from the Legislative Council, which created the...

April 27, 2001 EDITORIAL INK DROPS: FAIRFIELD HILLS — TRADING FACTS FOR CONCEPTS: Newtown’s leaders have a problem: How do you argue persuasively for something about which you know very little? Newtown’s selectmen and Legislative Council have de...

April 20, 2001 HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER of Richard “Fuzzy” Simon. * * * * * A 12-member jury in Danbury Superior Court this week convicted the gunman in the July 1999 Sandy Hook shooting death of 15-year-old Jason Gowdy, finding the shooter guilty of...