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Published: Aug 31, 2019 at 08:00 AM
Filling the night with popular songs, local band Frandango’s members had guests dancing at the Tenth Annual Botsford Summer Bash on Saturday, August 24. The Botsford Fire Rescue Company Inc hosts the event. Bash committee member Maritza Nezvesky said...
Published: Aug 31, 2019 at 07:30 AM
Newtown’s Public Building & Site Commission (PBSC) voted unanimously August 27 to authorize the new police headquarters’ construction manager to begin soliciting subcontractor bids.
Published: Aug 31, 2019 at 07:00 AM
With curated shelves of books roughly organized by grade levels, the Little Book Store manager Marge Gingolaski says the for-sale selections at C.H. Booth Library are perfect for stocking up classrooms or private collections for students.
Ms Gingolas...
Updated: Sep 10, 2019 at 01:55 PM
Discover the past and present of some of Newtown’s lesser-known historical sites in The Newtown Bee’s new series that is dedicated to retracing the role these places once played in the town and what they stand as today.
Formerly: Upham’s Japanese...
Published: Aug 31, 2019 at 07:00 AM
The new Community Center saw its biggest crowds since opening day as vendors, instructors, and hundreds of flexible devotees descended on the 2019 Newtown Yoga Festival August 24.
Event co-founders Suzy DeYoung and Karen Pierce, along with fellow org...
Published: Aug 31, 2019 at 07:00 AM
Once upon a time, there was no air conditioning. No cool buildings to slip into when temperatures were scorching sidewalks, no cars quickly cooled for a comfortable ride home. It was just plain hot everywhere in the summer, until Mother Nature deemed...
Published: Aug 31, 2019 at 07:00 AM
This is the second in a series of articles covering Newtown Youth Football & Cheer as the organization celebrates the 50th anniversary of the youth program.
Cheerleading and football go together like peanut butter and jelly.
The girls on the sid...
Published: Aug 30, 2019 at 03:25 PM
Everyone in Newtown is excited for the Monday, September 2, Labor Day Parade. As tradition has it, chairs and other seating equipment arrive early on the scene. The wise know that by midmorning on Monday the spaces closest to the parade route will be...
Published: Aug 30, 2019 at 03:00 PM
September 16, 1994
In this country, we are fond of pointing out that our great rivers and lakes belong not to one person or group but to all people. By holding to the ideal that all citizens are proprietors of these natural resources, however, we oft...
Published: Aug 30, 2019 at 12:18 PM
Name: Frank LaPak
Title: Graphic Designer
Duties: I come in on Wednesdays and compose all of the pages for The Bee Extra.
Fun Fact: I used to love going to Maine and Williamsburg with my wife, Ellen.