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EverWonder Children’s Museum, at 31 Pecks Lane, has announced its calendar for November. This month, the Yellow Art Lab will be filled with turkeys… paper ones, that is. Museum visitors will be invited to create their own personalized Thankful Turkey...

As more than three dozen supporters of a municipal plastic bag ban flooded into a Legislative Council Ordinance Committee meeting, scheduled in one of the small conference rooms at the Municipal Center, October 18, Chairman Ryan Knapp opted to simply...

I hope you caught Dr Margaret Reed’s inaugural column in the Horse, Dog, and Pet section of last week’s paper. Dr Reed will be contributing columns to The Newtown Bee, and I’m sure you will find them as enlightening as her first. Dr Reed is the autho...

The Newtown High School Marching Band & Color Guard is preparing for a November 3 USBands New England Regional Championship competition at Danbury High School. Groups from Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and New Jersey will be competing at ...

Newtown’s canine version of Halloween, known as Howl-O-Ween, drew about 75 participants and their dogs to the event held on Sunday, October 28, at Park & Bark, the town’s fenced off-leash dog park at Fairfield Hills. Adverse weather had resulted in t...

Occupation: I’m currently doing network marketing in the health and wellness industry. When I first started, I was in the skincare industry, then, just about five months ago, I started health and wellness. The company I’m with, Vasayo, is a littl...

The Flagpole Photographers Camera Club will be offering an exhibit of their members’ best works during the months of November and December at Newtown Municipal Center. The club will also host a pair of programs this month. The ninth annual “Newtown &...

The November midterm elections are almost here, and on November 6, local voters are being called to the polls to not only endorse the candidates of choice, but to weigh in on one local and two statewide ballot questions. Polling locations will be ope...

A week after the Junior Newtown Action Alliance (Jr NAA) hosted a “Roundtable Discussion on Gun Violence” at C.H. Booth Library on October 23, it worked with the Newtown Action Alliance (NAA) to organize an October 30 vigil for gun violence victims o...

In ceremonies held at Newtown High School, the Newtown Police Department bestowed awards on its officers for their public service to the community. The October 16 event initially had been scheduled for May 15, but a macroburst that day caused extensi...