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Published: Dec 25, 2020 at 08:00 AM
Occupation: I am the general manager of Christmas. It is my responsibility to make sure all good girls and boys — of all ages — receive gifts that bring them joy. In addition to my annual 24-hour international trip to deliver those presents, I sp...
Published: Dec 25, 2020 at 07:45 AM
St Rose of Lima Roman Catholic Church introduced a new Christmas event this week, what Monsignor Robert Weiss called “a gift to say thank you for your incredible faith, and all that you have brought to each other during these very difficult and chall...
Published: Dec 25, 2020 at 07:00 AM
I do believe that many residents got their fill of exercise last Thursday, shoveling and snow blowing the nearly one foot of snow that was draped across our landscape the night before. Maybe my memory is foggy, but this seemed like more than I saw al...
Published: Dec 25, 2020 at 07:00 AM
January 12, 1996
Having barely dug its way out from last weekend’s snowstorm, Newtown braced for another possible assault this weekend... For a few days this week Newtown congratulated itself for getting through the Blizzard of 1996, which dumpe...
Published: Dec 24, 2020 at 08:00 AM
What do local children want for Christmas this year?
Three of Santa’s elves were allowed to reach out to local children this holiday season, thanks to a special arrangement between Newtown Youth & Family Services (NYFS) and the North Pole. Evergreen,...
Published: Dec 24, 2020 at 08:00 AM
It is absolutely fine — completely understandable, in fact — if someone does not feel all bright and bubbly just because it is the holiday season, says Jeff Belanger.
Belanger, who lived his formative years in Sandy Hook, knows that some of the oldes...
Published: Dec 24, 2020 at 07:00 AM
Following a Board of Finance recommendation and referral of the town’s five-year Capital Improvement Plan (CIP), the Legislative Council began what is expected to be a nearly two-month process of finalizing it during a virtual meeting December 16.
Co...
Published: Dec 24, 2020 at 07:00 AM
The next issue of The Newtown Bee will have early deadlines due to New Year’s Day. The print edition of January 1, 2021, will be mailed December 30, so that the USPS can deliver the papers to local subscribers ahead of the holiday. The paper will als...
Published: Dec 23, 2020 at 04:30 PM
We continue this year with the tradition begun by the late Newtown Bee Editor Paul Smith many years ago, that of printing the Christmas story, according to St Luke, in the issue closest to December 25.
Familiar to those of Christian faith is the stor...
Updated: Dec 23, 2020 at 03:11 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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