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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...
Published: Mar 22, 2021 at 08:15 AM
Writer Robin DiAngelo first coined the term “white fragility,” according to Minnesota Public Radio, in 2011 to describe the ways in which many white people react emotionally and defensively when confronted with issues of race.
Seven years later she r...
Published: Mar 22, 2021 at 08:00 AM
After spending her younger years locally, graduating from Newtown High School and returning home through college, Beth Bogdan moved on and out to work in the music industry.
Readers may recall she created a philanthropic project following the 12/14 t...
Published: Mar 22, 2021 at 08:00 AM
Jeff Belanger’s latest book, The Call of Kilimanjaro: Finding Hope Above the Clouds, was published March 9 by Imagine, a division of Charlesbridge Publishing.
After losing his brother-in-law Chris to cancer, Belanger made the decision to summit Mount...
