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On Tuesday, December 9, Newtown’s Borough Board of Burgesses held a regular meeting to discuss several items, the most important being the burgesses’ coverage under the town’s insurance policy. A brief discussion of the possible ban on door-to-door s...

Newtown residents enjoyed a morning of holiday cheer, special performances, and delicious pancakes at Newtown Rotary Club’s 65th Annual Pancake Breakfast on Saturday, December 6. The all-you-can-eat event is a long-standing holiday tradition where fa...

Wednesday, December 3: 12:53 pm, medical assist, Mt Pleasant Road, Hawleyville responded; 1:57 pm, motor vehicle accident (MVA), Hook & Ladder responded; 5:02 pm, smoke/odor investigation, 2 Holly Lane, Sandy Hook responded; 9:02 pm, service call...

Newtown High School (NHS) Band and Guard is asking the community for financial support in order to replace its failing drum line equipment. The program’s drum line equipment, which it received from an anonymous donation in 2013, has reached the end o...

UPDATE (Friday, December 19, 2025): This post has been updated to correct a few errors between days and dates. * * * * * The print editions of the December 26, 2025 and January 2, 2026 Newtown Bee will have early deadlines ahead of the Christm...

On Monday, December 8, representatives from Autumn Lake at Glen Hill Healthcare and Sheraton Caregivers came and talked about home safety, especially with the winter weather and holidays approaching. Erin Kelly, director of rehab at Autumn Lake at Gl...

Parking Lot Collision Newtown Police report Alina Buszynski, 17, of Southbury, operating a 2015 Acura RDX, was parked in a spot in a lot on Church Hill Road at 4:34 pm November 20. While backing out, her vehicle struck a parked and unoccupied 20...

With the holidays right around the corner, Newtown Youth and Family Services hosted its 40th Newtown Holiday Festival on Sunday, December 7. The festival is a long-standing Newtown tradition where people can ring in the holidays with a full day of ac...

HARTFORD — Governor Ned Lamont on Friday directed US and Connecticut flags lowered to half-staff from sunrise to sunset on Sunday, December 14, in remembrance of the twenty children and six adults who were killed thirteen years ago in the tragedy at ...

Newtown Choral Society performed its winter concert, “Songs of the Glorious Season,” to a capacity crowd last weekend. The 4 pm performance at Newtown Meeting House was directed by Mary Andreotta, who led the choir through a program that opened with ...