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After a lull following a spate of webcasts produced by The Newtown Bee in 2020, the organization is lining up a number of new programs that will be either initially available via Facebook Live, or will be uploaded to The Newtown Bee’s YouTube channel...

Friends of Newtown Seniors (FONS) with the support of the Newtown Senior Center and C.H. Booth Library is sponsoring a writing contest that will award four cash prizes of $50 each. Newtown residents who are at least 55 years of age are invited to sub...

The Newtown-New Fairfield high school hockey team edged Masuk of Monroe 3-2 on March 6, then fell 3-2 to Immaculate of Danbury on March 8 — both at Danbury Ice Arena. In the win over Masuk, Gio Cucco and Cam Gouveia each netted their first career hig...

Senator Chris Murphy will be holding a telephone town hall conversation with Connecticut residents on Monday, March 15, at 7:15 pm, to talk about the American Rescue Plan, signed into law by President Biden on Thursday, March 11, and answer any quest...

HARTFORD — According to a press release received from the office of Senator Tony Hwang, a public hearing will take place Monday, March 15, in the legislature’s Planning and Development Committee, where there are bills aimed at local control of land u...

Robert Rubinstein, age 84, of Oxford, passed away on Wednesday, March 11, at Yale-New Haven Hospital in New Haven. Robert was born in NYC, a son of the late Louis and Min Rubinstein. Robert and his wife, Florence, of 63 years settled in Newtown to ra...

BETHEL — Newtown High School’s girls’ and boys’ indoor track teams had their first competition of the abbreviated winter season when the Nighthawks and four New Milford team representatives went to Bethel High School’s Track and Field Center on March...

A remarkably low debt service rate on Newtown’s latest bond offering and a respectable increase in the Grand List factored into a Board of Finance decision March 4 slashing a proposed 2021-22 tax increase by nearly two-thirds before sending the modif...

The Newtown Planning and Zoning Commission (P&Z) met on Zoom to continue its public hearing regarding detached accessory apartments on March 4. Application 21.03 by the Town of Newtown’s Land Use Agency sought a text amendment to the town’s zoning re...

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 ...