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Published: Apr 11, 2025 at 07:00 AM
SHERMAN — There are three sides to every story, as the old saying goes: yours, mine and the truth. That is the central exploration of Donald Margulies’ 2000 Pulitzer-Prize-winning play Dinner with Friends, now being staged at The Sherman Playhouse.
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Published: Apr 11, 2025 at 07:00 AM
There was a lot to the Newtown High School girls’ lacrosse team’s season-opening 8-7 win over visiting Fairfield Ludlowe on a rainy April 5 afternoon.
For starters, this was a rematch of last year’s Class LL State Tournament opener, won 12-10 by Ludl...
Published: Apr 11, 2025 at 07:00 AM
At the Tuesday, April 8 Borough Board of Burgesses meeting, the burgesses put some finishing touches on the Borough of Newtown’s budget for 2025-2026. The burgesses debated on how much money should be in the legal line item at the March meeting and w...
Published: Apr 11, 2025 at 06:55 AM
So far so good for the Newtown High School boys’ lacrosse team, which opened the campaign with nonconference victories over FCIAC teams, host Fairfield Warde on April 5 and visiting Stamford on April 7, and a South-West Conference triumph over visiti...
Published: Apr 11, 2025 at 06:55 AM
Battling a tough FCIAC opponent, mid-30s temperatures, and a fierce wind that made it feel as if it were 20-something degrees, the Newtown High School softball team left the field feeling warm and fuzzy with a come-from-behind 5-4 walk-off win over t...
Published: Apr 11, 2025 at 06:50 AM
Although sets two and three easily could have gone either way, Newtown High School’s boys’ volleyball team took care of business in the minimum three games to defeat visiting Danbury in the April 7 season opener. The Nighthawks won by scores of 25-17...
Published: Apr 10, 2025 at 04:37 PM
Improper Merge
Newtown Police report Paige Benway, 16, of Monroe, operating a 2011 Honda Civic, was traveling southbound on South Main Street in one of two lanes at 8:50 pm March 26. Sophyia Ruppell, 17, of Newtown, operating a 2014 Ford Escape,...
Published: Apr 10, 2025 at 04:15 PM
To the Editor:
While town budget approval is up to voters, I’m concerned that if town officials are not committed to supporting its passage, the April 22 referendum will fail.
The tax increase is higher than past years and requires abundant communica...
Published: Apr 10, 2025 at 04:05 PM
To the Editor:
As the director of communications for the Newtown Emergency Communications Center, I am honored to submit this letter to The Bee on behalf of my staff for National Telecommunications Week (April 13 to 19).
We are nine strong with two p...
Published: Apr 10, 2025 at 03:58 PM
To the Editor:
Taxes Increases? Ugh. But this year necessary.
None of us want to hear that property taxes are going up, especially these days with the threat of recession and job losses and general economic instability in the news. But sometimes, and...
