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Updated: Apr 23, 2021 at 09:36 AM
The state House of Representatives approved a bill early Tuesday, April 20, that would remove Connecticut’s religious exemption from mandatory school vaccinations, a major step for a hot-button proposal that has been raised three years in a row with ...
Published: Apr 23, 2021 at 07:00 AM
The Planning and Zoning Commission (P&Z) conducted three public hearings during its Zoom meeting on Thursday, April 15.
The public hearings were for text amendments to reduce the required setback for signage to eight feet in Special Development Distr...
Published: Apr 23, 2021 at 07:00 AM
We were saddened to hear over the past weekend of the unexpected passing of Bridget Seaman, who staffed one of the front office desks at The Bee for many years. Though COVID concerns kept her out of the office this past year, the echoes of her wry co...
Published: Apr 23, 2021 at 07:00 AM
May 10, 1996
Twenty-nine years after resident Ben Blanchard went to a borough meeting and suggested that a historic district be formed on Main Street, the concept became a reality last week. On the sixth try, residents voted 29.5 [sic] to 1 to f...
Updated: Apr 23, 2021 at 01:40 PM
No one, any year, wants to see an increase in taxes; but particularly after a brutal year of pandemic restrictions and job losses, any increase will be felt by voters as one more blow.
A school budget of $79,697,698 and a municipal budget of $43,521,...
Updated: Apr 23, 2021 at 10:27 AM
Bridget Tara Seaman-Walker, 57, died suddenly, Friday, April 16, at Danbury Hospital.
Bridget had always called Newtown her home. A lifelong resident, born October 9, 1963, she attended St Rose of Lima School and graduated Newtown High School in 1981...
Published: Apr 22, 2021 at 03:05 PM
Newtown High School’s girls’ lacrosse team went on the road and defeated Bunnell of Stratford 16-4 on April 20.
Gia Corso had three goals, and Izzy Butler, Julia Gerace, Ellie Meyer, and Ava Mitchell all had two goals. Butler added two assists.
Elena...
Published: Apr 22, 2021 at 03:00 PM
Newtown High School’s boys’ lacrosse team went to the fourth quarter knotted up at 4-4 with the visiting New Fairfield Rebels on a rainy April 15 night. The rain fell hard, but the Rebels poured it on even more in the final stanza on the way to a 9-4...
Published: Apr 22, 2021 at 03:00 PM
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Updated: Apr 22, 2021 at 02:59 PM
It was a big week in Connecticut as state officials balanced good news about multiple virus related restrictions being lifted and state colleges reopening for increasing in-person learning with the grim notice that the state’s COVID-19 death count to...
