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Updated: Mar 23, 2021 at 02:46 PM
For the second time in less than a week, the president is ordering flags lowered to memorialize Americans killed in a mass shooting incident.
President Joseph Biden on Tuesday issued a proclamation “as a mark of respect for the victims of the sensele...
Updated: Mar 23, 2021 at 11:12 AM
Newtown High School’s girls’ basketball team defeated host New Fairfield 41-37 in the South-West Conference tournament quarterfinals on March 19 (read about the action in intern Shea Murphy’s coverage in the March 26 print edition).
The Nighthawks vi...
Published: Mar 23, 2021 at 08:40 AM
Marybeth Patterson, 74, of Sandy Hook, passed away peacefully with her family at her bedside on March 18.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Newell and Irene Finnerty, and sister in-law, Pat Finnerty.
She is survived by her best friend, Bud Fi...
Updated: Mar 23, 2021 at 08:17 AM
A collection of paintings by a celebrated Newtown artist is on view at C.H. Booth Library.
The collection of works by Ruth Newquist, a signature artist of the National Watercolor Society, is on view through April 23 in the second floor hallway of the...
Published: Mar 23, 2021 at 08:00 AM
Maureen Will made the final emergency communications center transmission out of 3 Main Street last week, formally closing the dispatch center’s original location.
The director of Newtown Emergency Communications Center (NECC, or “dispatch”), Will was...
Published: Mar 23, 2021 at 07:00 AM
DANBURY — The never-quit Newtown High School boys’ basketball team had a late-game surge before falling 66-55 to the host Immaculate Mustangs in the South-West Conference tournament quarterfinals, on March 18.
Trailing by as many as 17 points late in...
Published: Mar 23, 2021 at 07:00 AM
The shows will go on. Newtown High School is readying not one, but two spring musicals.
NHS Choral Director Jane Matson is directing and choreographing both productions. When it came time to think about this year’s production, Matson said every optio...
Published: Mar 22, 2021 at 01:00 PM
At The Newtown Bee, we are working on articles every week for our readers’ education and enjoyment, and subscribers get the first — and sometimes exclusive — look at stories in print.
What’s in the works for the edition of March 26 is a full account ...
Published: Mar 22, 2021 at 11:10 AM
Wallace C. Thomas, age 97, of Newtown, died peacefully in Danbury Hospital on March 20. Wally was born in Bridgeport in 1923 to the late Irvin F. Thomas and Mildred (Howe) Thomas.
He was a World War II veteran serving in the Army Air Corps.
He met th...
Published: Mar 22, 2021 at 10:44 AM
Late Saturday afternoon, March 20, First Selectman Dan Rosenthal shared a draft decision from Connecticut’s Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (PURA) that validates the many complaints being made by ratepayers and municipal leaders who bore the br...
