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Published: Jul 22, 2019 at 07:00 AM
The local unit of the Salvation Army’s “Christmas in July” effort to raise money for friends and neighbors in Newtown, July 13, was a “success,” Salvation Army Newtown/Bethel Unit President Glenn Nanavaty reflected on July 16.
The Salvation Army fill...
Published: Jul 22, 2019 at 06:15 AM
Workers this week began preliminary tasks in the town’s sidewalk expansion project, which will create safe pedestrian passage between the town center and the Fairfield Hills core campus when completed. Through sidewalk construction, the town seeks to...
Published: Jul 22, 2019 at 06:00 AM
Rob Sibley, town deputy planning director, has been named to also serve as the borough’s zoning enforcement officer (BZEO), a position in which he will enforce the borough’s zoning regulations.
The position has been vacant since early 2018, when Sele...
Published: Jul 21, 2019 at 08:00 AM
It may be the offseason, but former Newtown High School baseball player Jake Oliger (class of 2016) is hard at work hitting and working out as he prepares for his senior year on the collegiate baseball diamonds.
Oliger is an outfielder for the Babson...
Updated: Jul 21, 2019 at 08:43 AM
UPDATED: July 21 @ 8 am to announce the Eichler's Cove swimming area has been cleared to reopen.
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Early Sunday morning, July 21, Newtown Health District Director Donna Culbert reviewed water samples and authorized the Eichler's Cove bea...
Published: Jul 20, 2019 at 08:00 AM
NOTE: This is an expanded version of [naviga:u]a story first published on July 12, 2019[/naviga:u].
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Within hours of [naviga:u]a fire that destroyed a 55-year-old barn at Long Meadowbrook Horse Farm[/naviga:u] during the early morning ...
Published: Jul 20, 2019 at 08:00 AM
The Society of the Creative Arts of Newtown (SCAN) will continue its summer series of one-day workshops this month.
“Introduction to Oil Painting for Beginners” will be offered Saturday, July 27, from 10 am to 4 pm, in the lower level of Newtown Meet...
Published: Jul 20, 2019 at 08:00 AM
Former Newtown High School standout baseball player Dave Matthews, coming off an ultra-successful junior campaign at Central Connecticut State University — a history-making season for the program, in fact — is competing for the New England Collegiate...
Updated: Jul 22, 2019 at 10:34 AM
Name: Jill Baimel
Position: Graphic Designer
Duties: As part of the Production team, I create ads for The Newtown Bee and Bee supplements. I also do some photo retouching. For Antiques and The Arts Weekly [The Bee’s sister paper, also pub...
Published: Jul 20, 2019 at 07:00 AM
The Avielle Foundation’s 2019 Brainstorm Experience, Season Two, will continue July 24 with Zak Ebrahim dropping in for a talk at Edmond Town Hall.
The Avielle Foundation, named in honor of SHS shooting victim Avielle Richman, works to prevent violen...
