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SOUTHBURY — Newtown High School’s boys’ basketball team, assuming all goes as planned, will finish off the truncated regular season with three games in as many days due to makeups forced by coronavirus protocol. The Nighthawks entered into the final ...

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. What ...

To the Editor: One of my first “real jobs” involved carrying contaminated water in five-gallon buckets and pouring it off into 55-gallon drums — heavy work at eight pounds a gallon. Americans use about 200 gallons daily. This morning I read about the...

To the Editor: (and to the fine citizen dog owners of Newtown), Please. I’m begging you: If you walk your dog at Fairfield Hills, pick up your pup’s poop! Right now it is a veritable minefield, and it ain’t just ’cuz the snow has melted. Bring a bag ...

To the Editor: I feel very sorry for you. I will pray for you. You are so wrong on whether assisted suicide should be legalized (“Life Or Death Legislation,” March 5, 2021). If all lives matter, black, white, brown, red, yellow, every color, why then...

To the Editor: What happened in New York and New Jersey at the beginning of last year didn’t stay in New York and New Jersey. The deadly coronavirus spread to Texas and Mississippi, and the entire nation. What will happen in Texas and Mississippi, wi...

Newtown Police Officer William Chapman and Newtown High School Athletic Director Matt Memoli have challenged each other to a friendly competition. A special event planned for Friday afternoon will double as a fundraiser for Special Olympics Connectic...

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. Keep up with all the Newtown news by subscribing to the paper each week —...

To the Editor: What does a homeowner do when the land use boards who should be protecting property rights are merely a rubber stamp for greedy developers? Take our example. Our home lies 30-40 feet from a greedy developer’s 12-unit build. No consider...

State Senator Tony Hwang will moderate an info forum regarding local zoning authorities and affordable housing land use appeal legislation in the Connecticut General Assembly impacting communities, Wednesday evening, March 10, from 7 to 8:15 pm. The ...