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Published: Jun 25, 2021 at 07:00 AM
On July 1, the same day countless consumers of marijuana and related products statewide will be hailing — and perhaps inhaling — the legalization of cannabis across Connecticut, Newtown’s Planning and Zoning Commission will be asked to snuff out the ...
Published: Jun 24, 2021 at 04:30 PM
Home and work are our first and second “gathering places.” Other communal spots that bring people together become a “third place,” and in Newtown we have a number of them: the C.H. Booth Library, the Newtown Community Center, the Senior Center, coffe...
Updated: Jun 24, 2021 at 03:10 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: Jun 24, 2021 at 02:04 PM
To the Editor:
This morning I had the opportunity to attend a preschool graduation ceremony at the [Children’s Adventure Center] CAC. My grandson, age 5, participated along with about 30 kids.
It was a special occasion for me, as in the early ’70s, t...
Updated: Jun 25, 2021 at 08:37 AM
To the Editor:
I read Dr Rudy Magnan’s letter [The Newtown Bee, June 18, 2021, “Reeducating Our Children”] and found it to be disturbing on many levels.
To me, a black man, his letter effectively reads like this:
“We should teach our children about h...
Published: Jun 24, 2021 at 02:01 PM
To the Editor:
I would like to propose during this period of transition at The Bee that you eliminate the police reports. It seems to me that there is nothing particularly newsworthy about the fender benders that happen around town. It only serves as...
Published: Jun 24, 2021 at 02:00 PM
To the Editor:
Making Juneteenth a federal holiday was a step in the right direction, long overdue. It’s our nation’s oldest commemoration of what’s supposed to be slavery’s end in the United States 156 years ago. June 19th memorializes the final fre...
Published: Jun 24, 2021 at 08:15 AM
October 20, 1922 to June 22, 2021
Howard Joseph Deimel, of Clearwater, Fla., and Sandy Hook, passed away peacefully on June 22 after a short illness. Howard was born on October 20, 1922, in Mount Vernon, N.Y., and was the son of Harry Deimel and Mati...
Updated: Jul 14, 2021 at 09:59 AM
Betty Presnell’s latest donation to FAITH Food Pantry (FFP) — done thanks to ongoing support from dozens of others — continues an effort to fill the pantry’s shelves that was launched at the beginning of the pandemic.
As clients visited FFP Tuesday m...
Published: Jun 23, 2021 at 10:40 AM
It is with great sadness that we announce that Stafford Chester Mead, Sr, died unexpectedly on Saturday, June 19, in Holyoke, Massachusetts, where he had been living for the past two years. Stafford was born in Port Chester, N.Y., on July 14, 1923, t...
