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Lee Glover holds the record for serving as grand marshal of a Newtown Labor Day Parade. Glover has served five times, more often than anyone else. The former Newtown Hook & Ladder Chief carried the honor the first two years a parade marched down Mai...

Following the cancellation of the 59th Annual Newtown Labor Day Parade, Newtown Bee readers were invited to share their parade memories. Following are some of the stories we received. In a call to the newspaper on August 21, Bitsy Weber said, “...

The Newtown Labor Day Parade Committee announced recently that there will not be a parade down Main Street, Glover Avenue, and Queen Street come Monday, September 7. It was not a huge surprise. There had not been rumblings yet of a parade theme or an...

The dispatchers at the Newtown Emergency Communications Center at Town Hall South, 3 Main Street, report the following fire calls and the responders: Thursday, August 27: 9:05 am, hazardous condition, Castle Meadow Road/Brushy Hill Road, Botsford...

The dispatchers at the Newtown Emergency Communications Center at Town Hall South, 3 Main Street, report the following calls for Newtown Volunteer Ambulance Corps: Saturday, August 29: 8:15 pm, fall/accident. Sunday, August 30: 7:15 am, medic...

The Graceful Planet Studio of Dance, located at 7 Berkshire Road, hosted an open house on Saturday, August 29, to educate the public how its COVID-19 procedures are allowing students to stay safe and continue their love of dance. Owner/Studio Directo...

Books are starting to pile up again for the Friends of the C.H. Booth Library: Donations are once again being collected for the organization dedicated to providing financial and materials support to the library. The Friends of the C.H. Booth Library,...

Business name: College H.U.N.K.S. Hauling Junk & Moving Address: 3 Turnberry Lane, Sandy Hook, CT 06482 Co-owners: Kylie Harrington / Josh Claffey, RN, BSN Background: When Kylie Harrington went looking for a service-oriented franchis...

As local schools ready for reopening and a fair number of Newtown’s college students return to campuses across the country and beyond, it remains clear that face coverings will play a critical role in keeping COVID-19 transmission rates low. Recently...

HARTFORD — The Connecticut Department of Public Health (DPH) is issuing a COVID-19 alert statewide for Labor Day weekend after seeing clusters of cases recently among college students, as well as a concern over the many gatherings and cookouts that a...