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To the Editor: Black lives never had mattered in America. Black lives didn’t matter when our Founding Fathers created this nation. They definitely didn’t matter in the last century when the white race would lynch Blacks and treat it as if it were ent...

To the Editor: I was given this interesting historical explanation describing the ten cycles which nations experience as they evolve. Students and adults who study history could evaluate past, current, and future events using this list. It is signifi...

To the Editor: We moved here 51 years ago. Thirty years ago, I became a trustee of the Newtown Historical Society. That’s when I met Dan Cruson. He helped me date old houses, which I was very interested in. Since I was born, I have lived in nine diff...

To the Editor: To my fellow citizens of this amazing town, A recent Newtown Bee editorial implied — in a classy and uncomplaining way — that The Bee is at risk because their aren’t enough paid subscribers. I bet most of us agree we’re really lucky t...

To the Editor: The author Louis L’Amour once said, “Knowledge is like money: To be of value, it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.” Because of Dan Cruson, past Newtown Historian, archaeologist, au...

Henry “Bud” Trenka, of Stamford, died March 3. He was born on November 28, 1943, in New York City, to Henry A. Trenka and Mary (Indrisek) Trenka. Henry is survived by his sister, Dolores A. Ruscoe, of Newtown; nephew, Jonathan Jenkins; niece, Beth A....

Donald Boyd Argersinger, age 88, passed away Monday, March 1. He was born January 30, 1933, in Amsterdam, N.Y., to Boyd Fox and Anna Stube Argersinger, and spent his childhood years in nearby Fonda, N.Y. Don was a resident of Santa Rosa Beach, Fla. H...

By the time this week’s print edition of The Newtown Bee hits the streets on Thursday afternoon, March 4, Newtown will have a newly appointed Charter Revision Commission. The Legislative Council was expected to seat and charge the all-volunteer panel...

Brandon Darrell Hensel, 22, of Sandy Hook, passed away unexpectedly on March 1, at 5:25 pm, at Danbury Hospital as the result of a car accident. He passed peacefully, surrounded by his loving family. Brandon, a lifelong resident of Newtown, was the s...

September 3, 1937 - February 26, 2021 Margaret A. Imbro (nee Wilkeyson) was a longtime resident of New Fairfield, Conn., where she raised two sons, Broderick (deceased) and Scott, and moved to Newtown in September of 2011. Margaret dedicated her life...