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Published: Oct 05, 2020 at 10:00 AM
At The Newtown Bee, we are working on articles every week for our readers’ education and enjoyment, and subscribers get the first — and sometimes exclusive — look at stories in print.
What’s in the works for the edition of October 9? You’ll find the ...
Published: Oct 05, 2020 at 10:00 AM
To the Editor:
I was one of ten members of the Fairfield Hills Master Plan Review Committee.
Our key recommendations (see final report to BOS dated 7/19/19) related to housing on the Fairfield Hills campus included:
1. A supported uses change to allo...
Updated: Oct 07, 2020 at 02:04 PM
To the Editor:
My endorsement of Mitch Bolinsky for State Representative is based on three overriding principles of character, competence, and hometown roots.
As a former teacher in the Newtown Public Schools, I had the honor of teaching both of Mitc...
Published: Oct 05, 2020 at 09:55 AM
To the Editor:
If Senators Chris Murphy and Richard Blumenthal care about animal welfare, they should support federal funding for cultured-meat research. For those who don’t know, cultured meat is grown from cells, without slaughtering nonhumans. It ...
Published: Oct 05, 2020 at 09:50 AM
To the Editor:
As this strange voting cycle gets underway, I urge Newtown voters to give consideration to the below.
I know many of our state elected officials are apprehensive about being swept along with presidential preferences without fair consid...
Published: Oct 05, 2020 at 09:15 AM
To the Editor:
We have suffered almost four years under a federal administration, directed by a president who, from the start, has proven unwilling to foster unity or even consensus in the national population he is supposed to serve. His overweening ...
Updated: Oct 06, 2020 at 08:08 AM
NOTE (Tuesday, October 6, 2020): This article has been updated with the correct spelling of Julia Sikes-Provey's surname.
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A glimpse of color now catches one’s eye as visitors to Fairfield Hills enter Washington Square. For those w...
Published: Oct 05, 2020 at 08:00 AM
This new series of profiles taps Newtown residents who are finding passion and inspiration as part of the growing ‘Newtown Allies For Change’ community, which gives powerful hyper-local voice to the social and racial justice movement.
For Newtow...
Updated: Oct 05, 2020 at 11:33 AM
Jessica Rose and Gianna Eisele, sisters of local murder victim Nicholas John Eisele, have issued their own statements in part calling for the reassignment of Newtown High School science educator Jeanette Roderick, who is the mother of Nicholas’s accu...
Published: Oct 05, 2020 at 07:00 AM
Judy Pierce Dunn, now of Thousand Oaks, Calif., and a former Newtown resident, recently sent a small collection of photographs and documents to The Newtown Bee. All of the items, she says, were discovered while cleaning.
“During this quarantine, bein...
