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Updated: Sep 19, 2020 at 12:30 PM
UPDATE (Tuesday, September 15, 2020): The Friends of Booth Library has reached out to The Newtown Bee to point out that
the group promised a donation of $105,000 to the library this year
. A review of the recorded conversation and notes fr...
Updated: Sep 12, 2020 at 10:26 AM
Joséphine Borne showed a very strong interest in music from a very young age.
By the time she was 3½ she would watch intently while her mother performed on the piano. That early curiosity, followed by lessons from her mother before the 10-year-old Ne...
Published: Sep 12, 2020 at 08:00 AM
A photographer who relocated to Newtown from Detroit has become the first Newtown business to seek greater exposure by putting a listing on ShopBlackCT.com, a newly launched statewide business directory.
Kori Andrea Doss of Kori Andrea Photography, w...
Published: Sep 12, 2020 at 07:00 AM
Bruce Walczak of Newtown has been endorsed by the Independent Party of Connecticut as a candidate for Congress in the 5th district. He will appear on the ballot under the Independent Party line for the November 3 election.
A 30-year resident of Newto...
Published: Sep 11, 2020 at 04:35 PM
Local nonprofit organization LOF Adaptive Skiers will kick off the 22-Mile Waterski Marathon on Lake Zoar for the Disabled on Saturday, September 12, at 62 Housatonic Drive, Sandy Hook, at 8 am. Boats will tow skiers down 11 miles with a police escor...
Published: Sep 11, 2020 at 01:00 PM
With mail-in, no-fault absentee balloting for this November’s general election scheduled to begin October 2, The Newtown Bee is continuing to use Zoom, Facebook Live, and YouTube to introduce local delegation statehouse candidates in the weeks before...
Published: Sep 11, 2020 at 09:50 AM
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: Sep 11, 2020 at 09:05 AM
To the Editor:
I’m a mom of grown children and as school openings takes a spotlight in the national political discourse, I think to myself how relieved I am to not have this particular worry right now.
But just because my kids are too old and my gran...
Published: Sep 11, 2020 at 08:00 AM
The Planning and Zoning Commission (P&Z) met via teleconference on the evening of September 3 to discuss a variety of applications, including Application 20.03 submitted by James F. Walsh for his property at 32 Berkshire Road. Residents may recognize...
Published: Sep 11, 2020 at 08:00 AM
Occupation: I’m the Chief Preservation Officer of Wonderland Jam, a micro-batch jammery producing handmade preserves, jams, and jellies like my ancestors did in the 1800s.
Family: I have one! They are all located out west, though, making us t...