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Published: Sep 04, 2020 at 07:00 AM
With COVID-19 forcing changes to the way Connecticut voters cast ballots this year, and with no-fault absentee balloting scheduled to begin October 2, The Newtown Bee will be using Zoom, Facebook Live, and YouTube to introduce and hear from local del...
Published: Sep 04, 2020 at 07:00 AM
Judie (Olson) Wheeler, one of the Camp Fire Girls pictured in the August 21 “The Way We Were” column, sent us some info noting that “Camp McKay was on Lake Kenosia.” She does not remember exactly where on the lake it was located, but we thank her for...
Published: Sep 04, 2020 at 07:00 AM
September 22, 1995
Within the past 45 days, fifteen Newtown families and individuals in housing crisis have come forward and asked the town for help, according to Director of Human Services Sheila Knox. Three families are facing foreclosure, fiv...
Updated: Sep 04, 2020 at 08:28 AM
In place of the typical annual convocation ceremony to welcome teachers and staff to the new school year, a video featuring administrators, educators, students, and other district members was shared on the school district’s website ahead of the 2020-...
Published: Sep 04, 2020 at 12:00 AM
Poking around the brownfield clean-up site a stone’s throw from Sandy Hook Village Center and the banks of the Pootatuck reveals a deteriorating complex of buildings that once contributed to Newtown’s manufacturing heritage.
Economic and Community De...
Published: Sep 03, 2020 at 04:30 PM
Usually, the editorial preceding Labor Day weekend is wrapped around the history of the holiday and the sense of community wrought by our Labor Day parade.
This year is different. For the first time since 1962, including a delayed 2011 parade due to ...
Updated: Sep 04, 2020 at 01:15 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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Updated: Sep 03, 2020 at 03:15 PM
George Ferguson knelt by his son Liam’s side as emergency crews arrived at their home on August 23, after Liam was struck on the head by a falling tree. Eleven days later, as he offered The Newtown Bee an update on Liam’s recovery, the elder Ferguson...
Updated: Sep 03, 2020 at 03:03 PM
Students returned to Newtown Public Schools — with masks — on September 3, the first day of the 2020-21 school year.
With the current hybrid school model, it was the first day back in the school buildings for “Cohort A,” and “Cohort B” was set to ret...
Updated: Sep 03, 2020 at 05:16 PM
For Nick Waaler, the day long anticipated is just around the corner. Unperturbed by the cancellation of the Lake Placid Ironman, he has now completed all his long training sessions in the pool and on the roads and he is ready to complete a Full Ironm...
