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With just days before the start of the 2019-20 school year, district educators and staff were welcomed on August 21 at Newtown High School for an annual convocation. After breakfast, all attendees gathered in the school’s auditorium. Members of local...

The Planning & Zoning Commission (P&Z) is scheduled to consider a proposed zoning regulation change that would affect the method used in calculating the maximum amount of residential space allowed in mixed-use developments in the Hawleyville Center D...

More than 45,000 Scouts and their leaders from 167 countries across the world traveled to the Summit Bechtel Reserve in West Virginia for the 24th World Scout Jamboree, from July 22 to August 2. The World Scout Jamboree is an educational event design...

Occupation: I am a homemaker, babysitter, dog-sitter, and weaver. I was a lab technician, but I stopped working in the lab after we had our two sons. They are close in age, and I helped with the kids in preschool and kindergarten. I worked for si...

The Newtown High School Marching Band & Color Guard fall season has begun. The group of 78 seventh to twelfth grade students participated in a two-week band camp that began August 12 and was scheduled to run through August 23, focusing on music, athl...

Newtown Public School district parents can share first day of school (August 26) photos of their child/children with The Newtown Bee for possible publication in next week’s print edition of the paper. The deadline to submit photos is 9 am on Tuesday,...

The Newtown Community Center staff has announced Welcome Week from August 26 through 30. Open to the entire community, Welcome Week offers free activities each day to include “something for everyone of all ages,” the announcement states. Join center ...

Sisters Sonya, 11, Karinna, 7, and Adrianna Feder, 7, worked collectively to complete the coloring page in The Newtown Bee’s Back To School supplement, published on August 16. The Back To School supplement also featured stories to prepare local stude...

This is the first in a series of articles, including a feature on cheerleading, covering Newtown Youth Football & Cheer as the organization celebrates the 50th anniversary of the youth program. A half century ago, representatives of Newtown’s Po...

The Planning & Zoning Commission (P&Z) has scheduled a public hearing to receive comments on its regulatory proposal to allow food trucks to become a permanent feature of local farmers’ markets. The hearing will be held at the P&Z meeting, which star...