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Published: Jul 24, 2020 at 08:00 AM
It has been four years since Ellie Lewis sold the Sandy Hook Diner after owning it for nearly 25 years, and customers are eager to have her back.
The eatery — among the oldest continually operating in the state until its recent temporary closure — is...
Published: Jul 24, 2020 at 08:00 AM
A collection of lacrosse equipment that had been spearheaded earlier this year by a local resident to benefit a youth group in lower Fairfield County is finally making its way toward its intended recipients.
Stephanie Barnes launched the collection o...
Published: Jul 24, 2020 at 07:00 AM
August 11, 1995
A motorist moving through the intersection of Queen Street and Glover Avenue at about 12:30 am Thursday suddenly stopped moving when her pickup truck drove into a quagmire in the road caused by a water main break, which apparentl...
Published: Jul 24, 2020 at 07:00 AM
Local photographer Jeff Campbell captured this image of C/2020 or Comet Neowise from Holcombe Hill Wildlife Preserve the evening of July 18, after receiving permission to be there from the Newtown Forest Association (NFA).
“I went there as it has a c...
Published: Jul 24, 2020 at 07:00 AM
Leaders of the Newtown-Sandy Hook Community Foundation have issued a memo signaling a plan to begin targeted fundraising to help offset operating expenses.
The memo, which was provided to and first detailed in The Hartford Courant, reportedly warned ...
Published: Jul 24, 2020 at 07:00 AM
Another one bites the dust... Botsford Fire Rescue was hoping to have better news, but members of the volunteer fire company have decided to cancel the 2020 Botsford Fire Summer Bash. The company had hoped to host this year’s event on August 29, but ...
Published: Jul 23, 2020 at 04:30 PM
Once it was easy to tell the good guys from the bad guys: The bad guys wore masks. The novel coronavirus has flipped that, though. Now, it’s the good guys wearing masks, and the — we won’t call them bad, but rather, inconsiderate — guys that are unma...
Updated: Jul 23, 2020 at 08:25 PM
UPDATE: This story has been updated to reflect the correct dates for the first two half-days of school, September 3 and 4.
A re-entry plan for students returning to school and a calendar change to have students start school on September 3 were a...
Published: Jul 23, 2020 at 02:55 PM
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Updated: Jul 23, 2020 at 02:07 PM
What are newtownbee.com readers reading? Each week we compile a list of the most read stories published to our site. Here is a roundup of the week’s top five stories, based on number of page reads.
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