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The top-seeded Newtown High School baseball team pounded out 16 hits on its way to an 11-2 triumph over No. 5 Notre Dame-Fairfield in the South-West Conference tournament semifinals, at neutral site Bethel High, on May 24. With the win, the top-seede...

Newtown's state delegation hosted a town hall meeting on May 10, just 18 hours after the 2018 Legislative Session closed in Hartford. State Representatives Mitch Bolinsky, Will Duff, and J.P. Sredzinski, and State Senator Tony Hwang welcomed about tw...

A local brew master and entrepreneur whose family has operated several long-established businesses in town is one step closer to his dream of opening a new local brewpub.The Newtown Bee following the meeting that the town will bear the cost o...

UPDATE (Wednesday, May 30, 2018): This story has been updated to include the May 29 announcement from Newtown Historical Society's House & Garden Tour, scheduled for June 10, has also been postponed due to the May 15 storm. UPDATE (Friday, J...

Police report incidents that occurred either during or after the severe storm that hit the town late on the afternoon of May 15.[naviga:img class="aligncenter wp-image-319800" src="https://newtownbee.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/SH_May-15-storm-veh...

With all but the final handful of Newtown homes reconnected to the electrical grid and most others piped back into their internet and telecom following a tremendous macroburst May 15 that pitched nearly the entire community into darkness - some for n...

Newtown High School's boys' volleyball team concluded the regular season with 3-0 (25-16, 25-13, 25-12) victory at Danbury in a rescheduled match on May 23. The win caps off an unbeaten season for the Nighthawks. The Nighthawks will compete in the So...

Newtown High School's girls' track and field team won the South-West Conference championship for the second straight year, edging rival Weston 138.50-125.50, at Bunnell High on May 23. "It was an unbelievable team win. This team, all year, has contin...

May 21, 1993 The state Department of Mental Health (DMH) during the past year has been implementing an advisory committee's recommendations on the future direction of the state's mental health system, according to a DMH report. One goal is to re...