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Updated: Mar 12, 2021 at 01:59 PM
Newtown resident and former selectman William (Bill) Furrier of Newtown has been endorsed by the Independent Party of CT as its candidate for the vacant 112th District state representative seat. The district encompasses all of Monroe as well as more ...
Published: Mar 12, 2021 at 07:00 AM
The Newtown Planning and Zoning Commission (P&Z) had a public hearing via Zoom, on March 4, for a referral from the Town of Newtown Board of Selectmen requesting the review and possible action on the Fairfield Hills Master Plan Review Committee’s 201...
Published: Mar 12, 2021 at 07:00 AM
Katie Ramsey and husband, Tim, are hoping Newtown and area residents will take part in an event to support research for the very rare childhood illness junctional epidermolysis bullosa. Their daughter, Sophia, was born with the genetic illness, “whic...
Published: Mar 12, 2021 at 07:00 AM
March 29, 1996
A small army of bright yellow earthmoving machines is clambering across a verdant hillside on the Fairfield Hills grounds, near the Pootatuck River. These powerful machines will be used by workmen building the central component of...
Published: Mar 11, 2021 at 04:30 PM
March is Women’s History Month, 31 days set aside to honor women who have impacted, and who are impacting, history.
While certain names pop up when we think of women who have shaped history, we do not have to look beyond the borders of our own town f...
Updated: Mar 11, 2021 at 04:20 PM
So you have gotten your first or only COVID-19 vaccine — maybe even your second.
And you have heard about Connecticut rolling back a raft of virus-related restrictions March 19, and that the state’s travel ban is shifting from a mandate to a recommen...
Updated: Mar 11, 2021 at 10:09 PM
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 ...
Published: Mar 11, 2021 at 02:45 PM
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.
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Published: Mar 11, 2021 at 02:05 PM
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...
Published: Mar 11, 2021 at 02:04 PM
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 ...
