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Published: Jul 23, 2020 at 11:30 AM
The Newtown Bee is seeking reader input through Twitter. Periodically, we will post a question to our Twitter account (@TheNewtownBee) with #TellTheNewtownBee included in the tweet. Some responses will be featured in a later print edition of the ...
Updated: Jul 23, 2020 at 08:39 AM
Due to COVID-19’s continued impact on venue restrictions and accommodations, the promoting company of two special events planned this year at Edmond Town Hall has updated the venue’s calendar.
The Imagination Movers, first announced for May 3 and pos...
Published: Jul 23, 2020 at 07:00 AM
The poem “Fallen” was submitted by Sandy Hook resident Gary Winn, who said he was inspired to compose it in response to the recent passing of US Congressman John Lewis.
When a tall tree falls
there’s a requiem,
a call above the forest whirl.
Urg...
Updated: Jul 23, 2020 at 08:40 AM
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Updated: Jul 24, 2020 at 09:43 AM
To the Editor:
The Newtown Bee
recently published a letter written by a member of Newtown’s Legislative Council. In the letter entitled “Marxism Is Not The Answer” the author, behind the smokescreen of a lesson on history and ideology, espous...
Published: Jul 22, 2020 at 03:30 PM
To the Editor:
I am a 2015 graduate of Newtown High School and am currently working towards my doctorate in clinical psychology.
I read a recent letter to the editor denying the existence of systemic racism, citing the example of two successful Black...
Published: Jul 22, 2020 at 03:20 PM
To the Editor:
In answer to Cathy Reiss’s letter to the editor in the July 17th Bee:
Cathy Reiss says (if I read her letter correctly) that the Black Lives Matter movement is Marxist and because Marxism is responsible for millions of deaths and miser...
Published: Jul 22, 2020 at 11:40 AM
Margaret Qubick was born on October 6, 1929, in Scranton, Penn., the youngest girl of the 15 children of the late Michael and Mary Suczyk Warholak. She passed peacefully and surrounded by family on July 18.
She was the loving wife of the late Robert ...
Published: Jul 22, 2020 at 10:30 AM
To the Editor:
In response to Cathy Reiss’s letter of July 15 about the Black Lives Matter movement:
We are lucky to live in beautiful Newtown. Look around you: trees, green space, wildlife, beautiful homes. What you don’t see are a lot of Black fami...
Updated: Jul 22, 2020 at 09:23 AM
HARTFORD — Governor Ned Lamont's latest executive order is strengthening his previously enacted travel advisory for anyone entering Connecticut from states with high infection and positivity rates for COVID-19.
The order changes the travel advisory t...