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Published: May 07, 2021 at 12:00 AM
We offer our thanks this week to neighbor Sherry Bermingham, who stopped in the Bee office last week with a beautiful bouquet of purple and white violets. Sherry told us when she stopped in Friday morning that they were “in memory of Bridget, and I t...
Updated: May 06, 2021 at 04:30 PM
Wheezing, sneezing, watery eyes, congestion, headaches: all symptoms of the spring pollen and allergens permeating the air these days — or are they?
Newtown Health District Director Donna Culbert has been seeing a number of residents in town testing ...
Published: May 06, 2021 at 04:30 PM
“Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair,” observes the mother’s voice in Langston Hughes’ “Mother To Son,” going on to offer encouragement and a reminder that a mother’s drive to survive is never ending.
“Mother, A Cradle To Hold Me” is poet Maya An...
Published: May 06, 2021 at 03:05 PM
Newtown High School’s boys’ volleyball team extended its winning streak to five matches, all of which have come in the minimum number of games, by defeating visiting Oxford 3-0 (25-8, 25-9, 25-7) on April 30, then besting host Norwich Free Academy (N...
Published: May 06, 2021 at 03:00 PM
FAIRFIELD — Sophomore Will Burns tossed four dominant innings as the visiting Newtown High School baseball team earned a five-inning, mercy-rule 13-0 triumph at Notre Dame-Fairfield, on April 30.
Burns allowed only one hit, did not walk a batter, and...
Published: May 06, 2021 at 03:00 PM
There are a few days left to find the perfect present for Mother’s Day this Sunday, May 9. Check out this sampling of local shops to find something for that special mother figure in your life:
Hollandia
Hollandia has a bountiful selection of Mot...
Published: May 06, 2021 at 02:45 PM
There is plenty to read at newtownbee.com, but so much more information to be found in print. If you read the print edition of The Newtown Bee, or subscribe, you belong to an exclusive club — the one that gets the best of Newtown’s news, first.
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Published: May 06, 2021 at 02:02 PM
To the Editor:
In early April, Newtowners on social media rallied around a hawk that had been cruelly shot with an arrow. In one online post, 614 of us “liked” or “loved” that the hawk had been captured and was being treated. He was lifted in prayer ...
Published: May 06, 2021 at 02:01 PM
To the Editor:
When Haudenosaunee/Iroquois say warrior, they mean one who carries the burden of the bones of the people.
Trudy Ray Lamb Richmond was many things — mother, grandmother, Newtown High School graduate, teacher, writer, culture bearer, and...
Published: May 06, 2021 at 02:00 PM
To the Editor:
When will President Biden learn, also his advisers, and the majority of Americans, it took only took three states to be infected with coronavirus last year before the entire nation became infected?
And they should realize we still are ...
