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Published: Aug 21, 2020 at 07:00 AM
September 8, 1995
Bob Findley jumped up on the reviewing stand on Queen Street and lifted his baton high to lead the Connecticut Alumni Senior Drum & Bugle Corps in a rousing, foot-tapping performance at the Annual Labor Day Parade. It was obvio...
Updated: Aug 21, 2020 at 01:00 PM
David Rizzardi motored up to Newtown on his motorcycle one afternoon last week to deliver... newspapers... to The Newtown Bee. The former resident says he’s up this way pretty regularly, so he didn’t mind returning to us a packet of papers that had e...
Published: Aug 20, 2020 at 04:30 PM
The majority of the letters received at The Newtown Bee are thoughtful reflections or opinions, or highlight activities in town, or are notes of thanks — but others give us pause.
Giving readers voice is not a matter of cut and paste, or type and pos...
Published: Aug 20, 2020 at 03:52 PM
While COVID-19 tests administered in Connecticut hit the one million mark this week, Newtown’s latest numbers are holding relatively steady according to state Department of Public Health data.
Newtown Health District Director Donna Culbert confirmed ...
Published: Aug 20, 2020 at 02:30 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.
Among...
Published: Aug 20, 2020 at 01:30 PM
The Edmond Town Hall Board of Managers will host an open house on Saturday, August 22, from 10 am to 4 pm, in honor of Mary Elizabeth Hawley’s birthday.
The public is invited to visit the Mary Hawley Memorial Room, just inside the main entrance of 45...
Published: Aug 20, 2020 at 11:30 AM
The Newtown Bee is seeking reader input through Twitter. Tell us this week, what has been your wildest (PG rated...) COVID-time purchase? Respond on Twitter.
Periodically, we will post a question to our Twitter account (@TheNewtownBee) with #Tell...
Updated: Aug 20, 2020 at 11:01 AM
Business owners, managers, event organizers, et al are encouraged to contact Associate Editor Shannon Hicks at
shannon@thebee.com
. Updates to current information are also invited.
Organizations, businesses, and general announcements are ...
Published: Aug 20, 2020 at 08:35 AM
To the Editor:
An overwhelming majority of Americans agree with the truism that Black lives matter, myself included. Black lives do matter. Police brutality is abhorrent and we should always strive to see that everyone has the opportunity to realize ...
Published: Aug 20, 2020 at 08:30 AM
To the Editor:
On August 4 Tropical Storm Isaias caused tremendous damage in our town. A tree that fell on wires near us on Osborne Hill Road was removed several days after the storm, and our power was restored after four days. A large, obviously dam...
