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Published: Jun 08, 2021 at 08:00 AM
Our occasional series “From Pencil To Print” shares how a story went from conception to a bylined feature for our print edition and website.
Whereas some stories are single-subject, stand-alone, and can be told in one relatively concise arc or j...
Updated: Jun 09, 2021 at 09:16 AM
Newtown Police are asking all residents to be on the lookout for three Black individuals, possibly two Black males and one Black female driving a black Mercedes. The Mercedes has no front plate and a chrome front grill.
The individuals were in the ar...
Published: Jun 08, 2021 at 07:00 AM
For the first time since last spring, when COVID-19 guidelines forced meetings to move to livestream and teleconference platforms, the Board of Police Commissioners had residents join them for a meeting.
The four commissioners at the June 1 meeting ...
Published: Jun 08, 2021 at 07:00 AM
Newtown Conservation Commission, in association with Monroe Conservation, has prepared a native plant resource guide to strongly encourage developers, landscape architects, municipal workers, landscapers, and homeowners to use plants that naturally o...
Published: Jun 07, 2021 at 03:00 PM
A number of stories posted to newtownbee.com this past weekend.
In case you missed them, here is a list of some of those stories, not in particular order.
“Injured ‘Arrow Hawk’ Makes Full Recovery, Released Locally,” by Alissa Silber, published June ...
Published: Jun 07, 2021 at 10:00 AM
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 June 11 includes a first lo...
Updated: Jun 07, 2021 at 10:06 AM
“The first time Martin Luther King Jr experienced life outside the segregated South, it was in Simsbury. He spent the summers of 1944 and 1947 here, and his letters home expressed wonder in the freedom to eat in any restaurant and sit wherever he...
Published: Jun 07, 2021 at 08:00 AM
With the Harley-Davidson motorcycle he often rode placed beneath a flag at half-staff just outside, members of Newtown Police Department, Newtown Police Commission, local officials, family members, and others who worked with and fondly remembered the...
Published: Jun 07, 2021 at 07:30 AM
Work by members of Weaving Newtown is on display in the Newtown Municipal Center showcase through the end of June.
Included in the exhibit are pieces by Leslie Huston; Hao Chang; Bev Skiles; Jen Rogers, Weaving Newtown coordinator; and master weaver ...
Updated: Aug 02, 2021 at 08:02 AM
Improper Turn
A 2019 Chevrolet Spark LS being operated by Michael L. Schaker, 34, of Bethel, was leaving the parking lot of 79 South Main Street/Ricky’s Shopping Plaza and had just entered the northbound traffic lane of South Main Street around ...
