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The Newtown-New Fairfield co-op hockey team is hitting the ice for another exciting campaign at Danbury Ice Arena, led by first-year Head Coach Michael Campbell. The team will again compete in the South-West Conference/Southern Connecticut Conference...

Nick Fraticelli takes over as head coach of the Newtown High School boys’ indoor track team and looks to get the most out of his runners, jumpers, and throwers. An assistant coach at Danbury High from 2006-2013, Fraticelli was named state assistant c...

The Newtown High School girls’ indoor track team, last winter’s South-West Conference Champion, is ready to compete for bragging rights again this campaign. “The goal is to remain at the top of SWC and make some waves in postseason at states,” Coach ...

Newtown High School’s girls’ basketball team got off to a winning start this winter, building a commanding early lead on the way to a 47-18 victory over visiting Bassick of Bridgeport in the season opener, on December 13. The Nighthawks scored 18 in ...

Public Works Director Fred Hurley and residents Beverly Bennett-Schaedler and Barbara Bloom gathered on the south side of the Municipal Center to celebrate new handicap parking spaces. At the September Commission on Aging meeting, Bennett-Schaedler a...

Piper, the senior member of The Newtown Bee canine security team, slipped the lead of life this month, shortly after being diagnosed with lung cancer.

The print editions of the December 27, 2024 and January 3, 2025 Newtown Bee will have early deadlines ahead of the Christmas and New Year holidays. All Editorial content is due by noon Monday, December 23, for the print edition of December 27; and by...

To the Editor: I am writing to express my sincere gratitude to the entire team of Sandy Hook Fire Department. My name is Maria Sadlier and I was part of this great community of Newtown and served on Newtown Ambulance for 20 years. I received a teleph...

To the Editor: A network evening news show recently showed closeup shots of three supposed mystery drones. There may be mystery drones out there but these were not among them. On all three I spotted flashing red and green wingtip nav lights, and on o...

To the Editor: As a resident of Newtown (Sandy Hook) for the past 11 years it was truly heartwarming, at a recent meeting of the town’s Planning & Zoning Commission, to hear the impassioned pleas of longtime/lifetime residents defending Nature’s defe...