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Published: Mar 15, 2019 at 08:00 AM
A loose seam can be the undoing of a garment. In the shadow of International Women’s Day, observed on March 8, a local lens on the stitches that make up our daily lives in Newtown is as important as changing with the seasons.
The Newtown Bee’s ed...
Published: Mar 15, 2019 at 08:00 AM
Occupation: Author/editor/teacher. My third book, Motherland: A Memoir of Love, Loathing, and Longing, is coming out in August from Ballantine Books.
Family: My spouse of 19 years is Susan.
Pets: A rescued terrier mutt, Petey, and a Maine...
Published: Mar 15, 2019 at 07:50 AM
Members of The Garden Club of Newtown returned home following the Connecticut Flower & Garden Show last month with another collection of honors and awards. The club has done very well in recent years at the annual event in Hartford.
Presented at Conn...
Updated: Mar 18, 2019 at 09:13 AM
Through the end of the month, Weaving Newtown is being represented with a collection of original works in the new display case at Newtown Municipal Center.
Weaving Newtown’s teacher Hanna Roehrs and coordinator Jen Rogers have installed a display of ...
Published: Mar 15, 2019 at 07:30 AM
Police on Wednesday, March 13, arrested two Shelton men in connection with their alleged theft of scrap copper piping from the vacant but secured Cochran House, a decaying multistory 188,000-square-foot building at the town-owned Fairfield Hills comp...
Published: Mar 15, 2019 at 07:15 AM
“What I’m going to teach you about today is how to have good posture throughout your lives.”
That was Dr Della Schmid’s commitment to attendees at the start of her From the Ground Up class at the C.H. Booth Library March 7.
Upon hearing her opening r...
Updated: Apr 03, 2019 at 12:28 PM
UPDATE (Wednesday, March 20, 2019): The Newtown Bee has been informed that the March 20 Labor Day Parade Committee meeting has been postponed one week, to Wednesday, March 27;
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Labor Day Parade Com...
Published: Mar 15, 2019 at 07:00 AM
The sound of ukuleles being strummed filled the air in the C.H. Booth Library’s Meeting Room during the all-ages Learn to Play the Ukulele class on March 5.
Instructors Wendy Matthews and Greg Doyle of The Edukated Fleas taught attendees the basics o...
Published: Mar 15, 2019 at 07:00 AM
The competition theme for Flagpole Photographers Camera Club this month is Forced Perspective.
All are invited to join club members for the meeting/competition scheduled for Thursday, March 28, at 7:15 pm, at Newtown Senior Center, 14 Riverside Road....
Updated: Mar 15, 2019 at 04:42 PM
RIDGEFIELD — The deep and growing anxiety ahead of interviewing arguably one of the world’s greatest living interviewers was palpable as I dialed up Emmy-winning talk show host Dick Cavett for a quick chat ahead of the debut of a new Ridgefield Playh...
