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Published: Aug 12, 2021 at 02:00 PM
To the Editor,
As state representatives, one of our most important duties is answering phone calls from our constituents.
It may not sound like as big a deal as writing a new law, but it is. One of the most frequent tasks performed by state legislato...
Updated: Aug 12, 2021 at 12:08 PM
With the Board of Selectmen expected to approve a guaranteed maximum price (GMP) for the Sandy Hook Permanent Memorial at its August 16 meeting, Downes Construction Company Vice President of Preconstruction Jeffrey Anderson announced that work will b...
Published: Aug 11, 2021 at 12:10 PM
Organizers of the Newtown Suicide Prevention Initiative are readying a young Redpointe Maple to be planted beside the Newtown Community Center next month and hoping to stir fond memories of those the community has lost to suicide.
A brief, quiet cere...
Published: Aug 11, 2021 at 11:15 AM
Genevieve Rychcik, a resident of Pleasant Valley, N.Y., for 26 years, and formerly of Schenectady, N.Y., peacefully passed away on August 5, at the Lutheran Care Center, at the age of 98. Daughter of the late Blanche (LaVallee) and John Kopmeyer, she...
Published: Aug 11, 2021 at 11:11 AM
Surrounded by her loving family, Patricia A. Draz Glaser, 95, of Jupiter, Fla., passed away on Monday, August 2, just short of her 96th birthday.
Pat was born August 29, 1925, in the Bronx, N.Y., to Lillian A. Gardiner and Louis K. Draz and grew up i...
Updated: Aug 11, 2021 at 10:39 AM
Each week we compile a list of some of the most-read stories published at newtownbee.com. Here is a roundup of the week’s recent top stories, based on the number of page reads.
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Updated: Aug 24, 2021 at 08:21 AM
Occupation: I am a farmer at Daffodil Hill Growers at Woodside Farm, which is run by my family. We have been in business for 15 years. We grow about 20 acres of vegetables over a land-base of 64 acres, utilizing both my family’s farm as well as r...
Published: Aug 11, 2021 at 08:00 AM
Woodbury resident and author E.C. Hanson is releasing his debut horror collection, All Things Deadly (Salem Stories), this month. Before getting his start, Hanson was a student teacher and intern at Reed Intermediate School then worked at Newtown Mid...
Published: Aug 11, 2021 at 07:00 AM
Reminiscing about their childhoods, approximately two dozen 1950s Newtown High School graduates traveled back in time — figuratively speaking — during a gathering on July 31.
Years ago, June Hanna began hosting reunions for her own class of 1959 at h...
Published: Aug 10, 2021 at 01:05 PM
Mary T. Vitarbo, 86, of Newtown, passed away on Tuesday, August 3, after a three-year battle with cancer. Mary continued this battle to the very end of her life, and it was indicative of her determination and strength to do things on her own terms.
M...
