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Updated: Mar 25, 2022 at 10:07 AM
To the Editor,
People should not cut down trees. If you don’t stop people from cutting down trees, animals will lose their homes and become extinct. A lot of animals need trees to survive.
Asher Grummons (Age 8)
Newtown
Published: Mar 17, 2022 at 04:00 PM
March 14, 1997
EDITORIAL INK DROPS: Newtown has a pretty sorry history of letting opportunities slip through its fingers. It has had the chance to purchase a number of properties in town that would have been ideal for public use. Over the years ...
Updated: Mar 25, 2022 at 10:07 AM
To the Editor:
How encouraging it was to get my copy of The Bee this Friday. Pictured on the front were the brave souls cheering on the “Freedom Fighter Truckers” on their way to the nation’s capital to give “18” Wheeled Voice to the demand that the ...
Published: Mar 17, 2022 at 03:00 PM
On the occasion of Sunshine Week, observed March 13-19, The Newtown Bee is reminded of the preamble to Connecticut’s Freedom of Information (FOI) Act, the first such legislation in the country, that was enacted on October 1, 1975.
It states: “The leg...
Updated: Mar 17, 2022 at 02:27 PM
Community input is being sought as part of a Superintendent Search Survey released this week and announced by the Board of Education.
According to an announcement from the Board of Education’s Superintendent Search Committee, “The Newtown Board of Ed...
Updated: Mar 17, 2022 at 09:36 AM
Newtown High School’s spring musical production of Footloose, will be staged at the school, 12 Berkshire Road, this weekend, starting March 17.
The musical will be staged in the school’s auditorium, and, similar to the popular motion picture by the s...
Published: Mar 17, 2022 at 07:30 AM
The ninth annual Fairfield County’s Giving Day raised nearly $2.2 million for Fairfield County-based nonprofit organizations during the 24-hour period of Thursday, February 24. The event is a major annual undertaking by Fairfield County’s Community F...
Published: Mar 16, 2022 at 04:15 PM
Peter “Pete” Samoskevich, 87, a resident of Newtown for over 50 years, died peacefully with family and friends by his side on March 15, 2022.
Pete grew up in Trumbull and was the last remaining in his family of five siblings. In his early years, he w...
Published: Mar 16, 2022 at 03:55 PM
Newtown Planning & Zoning Commission (P&Z) reviewed an application for a zone change and an application for a special exception during its meeting at the Newtown Municipal Center on March 3.
The commission also reviewed three applications pertaining ...
Published: Mar 16, 2022 at 11:15 AM
1945 to 2022
Randy Lewis, 77, a long-time resident of Newtown, Conn., passed away on March 11, 2022, at Regional Hospice of Connecticut. Randy leaves his wife of 52 years, Susan; his two daughters, Karen (David Pardoe) and Sarah (Robert McElhinney); ...
