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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...
Published: Sep 03, 2020 at 09:45 AM
HARTFORD — In a plea to reintroduce the voices of all Connecticut residents to state government and public process, State Rep. Mitch Bolinsky (R-Newtown) stood alongside his fellow House Republican colleagues Wednesday in opposition to Governor Ned L...
Published: Sep 03, 2020 at 09:35 AM
Jason J. Anzellotti, age 40, of Beverly Hills, Fla., passed away unexpectedly on August 31. He was born October 21, 1979, in Waterbury to Susan Campbell, currently of Ocala, Fla., and Kevin Anzellotti and (stepmother) Barbara Anzellotti, of Southbury...
Published: Sep 03, 2020 at 09:30 AM
Rita Ann Dieck, 86, died at home in Newtown on August 25, with her youngest son at her side.
Born to L. Walter and Isabel Dempsey on November 30, 1933, in New Rochelle, N.Y., Rita was the second of five children. Her siblings, Terry Becker, Mary Lou ...
Updated: Sep 03, 2020 at 09:16 AM
Carole Lee Carbonneau Foley, 72, passed quietly in hospice care at Bristol Hospital on August 16 after a long struggle with kidney failure and other health issues.
A ten-plus generation Sandy Hook resident, she was born November 17, 1947, to the late...
