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To the Editor: I feel that the absentee ballot application form should be changed to allow anyone voting in next November’s election to get an absentee ballot because of COVID-19. As the law stands now, you can get an absentee ballot if you are sick,...

Newtown Middle School was recently awarded a grant that is expected to, eventually, reconfigure the school’s library media center (LMC). The grant for an active learning classroom through the American Learning Center program is an initiative offered ...

EAST HADDAM — Goodspeed Musicals Executive Director Michael Gennaro has announced additional changes to the programming and operations at the historic theater. “As we look to the future and the realities of reopening our theater, nothing is more impo...

To the Editor: As co-founders of the Connecticut COVID-19 Charity Connection (4-CT), we are extremely grateful to be one of the charities to benefit from this year’s Travelers Championship that took place June 25-28. The 2020 Championship was just th...

To the Editor: Having encountered a great deal of difficulty obtaining unemployment/pandemic assistance in New York state, I was urged to contact my elected representatives to bring their offices’ resources to bear on my situation by my great friend ...

To the Editor: Thank you for a reasoned argument. I must respectfully disagree with some of your premises, however. Mail-in voter fraud is rare because, in general, mail-in voting is a small subset of all voting. If it gets larger, then before it is ...

To the Editor: What are the two most pressing concerns parents have for their kids this coming school year? One, the likelihood of having an entire school infected due to the extreme transmissibility of the disease. And, two, the fact that students d...

To the Editor: We love Newtown. There are many reasons people have chosen Newtown as their home, including quality education and our community character. Safety is the foundation upon which our community is built. A safe community benefits everyone, ...

To the Editor: I’m Mitch Bolinsky, Newtown’s four-term State Representative, a position I have had the honor of earning and holding for eight years. Last week’s Bee and News-Times included a letter with allegations of my being a failure to the BIPOC ...

To the Editor: Many of us have to wonder about why there were two demonstrations in Newtown, a quiet town trying to still recover from the terrible tragedy we experienced years ago. We still have to wonder why no one in the school system ever raised ...