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The Connecticut Department of Transportation has issued details ahead of scheduled nighttime work on two local I-84 ramps planned for this week.  The closures and detours are reportedly necessary to facilitate maintenance and safety improvements of d...

Governor Ned Lamont on Tuesday announced that he is directing US and state flags in Connecticut to be flown at half-staff from sunrise to sunset on Wednesday, May 15, 2019, in recognition of Peace Officers Memorial Day, a national observance paying t...

Vera Emma (Plante) Smith, 84, passed away at her home Saturday, May 11, 2019, after a long battle with vascular dementia. She was born October 22, 1934, in Fall River, Mass. While working as a home economics teacher, she met her husband of 50 years, ...

To the Editor: As a believer in recycling waste, I was very dismayed to see that the transfer center has resorted to single stream recycling. Like many of us, I receive a lot of deliveries from Amazon, and I accumulate a fair amount of cardboard. Whe...

EverWonder Children’s Museum, a local provider of hands-on educational opportunities in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math (STEAM) for children up to age 12, recently received its largest grant to date, a $100,000 challenge grant from t...

To the Editor: My husband Scott and I and our children would like to thank HomeFront and Gordon Williams, Jerry Cole, Doug, Bob, Bruce Hoag, Mr Kovacs, and the countless people who showed up on Saturday, May 4, to help us with some projects we needed...

With only five out of ten members present, the Sandy Hook Permanent Memorial Commission (SHPMC) turned its regularly scheduled monthly meeting on May 9 into a working session. SHPMC Vice Chairman Alan Martin led the evening discussion by saying that ...

For her Bat Mitzvah project, Newtown Middle School seventh grader Hanna Reps chose to assist kittens and cats though Sandy Hook-based Kitten Associates and Southbury’s Whiskers Pet Rescue. Hanna was featured in a recent Newtown Bee story about her pr...

John E. Platt, Jr, 67, of Sandy Hook, passed away peacefully at his home on Saturday, May 11, 2019. He was the loving husband and best friend of Christine (Foley) Platt. John was born in Danbury on March 14, 1952, a son of the late John and Marion (C...

To the Editor: The concerns about the future of the Senior Center (expressed in January letters to The Bee and during meetings with the first selectman on January 11th and February 6th) have diminished. The evidence is the increased membership enroll...