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Updated: Mar 25, 2021 at 08:29 AM
April 12, 1996
A storm that dumped about six inches of heavy, wet snow Tuesday night and Wednesday morning bent trees, broke limbs, and wreaked havoc with utility lines throughout the Newtown area... At the height of the power outage, about 4:30...
Published: Mar 04, 2021 at 04:50 PM
Merna Benedict Goett died peacefully at her home in Monroe on February 28, surrounded by her loving family.
Merna was born to Nelson and Merna (Elliman) Bingham on St Patrick’s Day, 1932, in Montclair, N.J. Following the tragic death of her mother so...
Published: Mar 04, 2021 at 04:30 PM
When it comes to letting go of life, Connecticut residents’ ability for physician assisted self-compassion in the face of certain death is not allowable by law.
How does one respond to death’s knock at the door? Not everyone agrees with poet Dylan Th...
Updated: Mar 05, 2021 at 07:53 AM
UPDATE: This report has been updated from the version appearing in our March 5 print edition to include information about some virus-related restrictions being lifted in the coming weeks.
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By the time local public school students retur...
Updated: Mar 05, 2021 at 10:07 AM
Note: This article was updated with Newtown's rescheduled game information after the print edition article went to press on March 3.
FAIRFIELD — The remaining four regular season games for Newtown High School’s girls’ basketball were initially c...
Published: Mar 04, 2021 at 02:30 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: Mar 04, 2021 at 02:06 PM
To the Editor:
The nation has turned a page and moved to a new chapter of our story. Future generations will measure us during this time by our character, how we respond to adversity and advance a nation with so much promise and endless possibilities...
Published: Mar 04, 2021 at 02:05 PM
To the Editor:
Black lives never had mattered in America.
Black lives didn’t matter when our Founding Fathers created this nation. They definitely didn’t matter in the last century when the white race would lynch Blacks and treat it as if it were ent...
Updated: Mar 05, 2021 at 02:32 PM
To the Editor:
I was given this interesting historical explanation describing the ten cycles which nations experience as they evolve. Students and adults who study history could evaluate past, current, and future events using this list. It is signifi...
Published: Mar 04, 2021 at 02:02 PM
To the Editor:
We moved here 51 years ago. Thirty years ago, I became a trustee of the Newtown Historical Society. That’s when I met Dan Cruson. He helped me date old houses, which I was very interested in. Since I was born, I have lived in nine diff...
