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If there was more success to be had with long-range looks at the basket, the outcome could have been a lot different for Newtown High School's boys' basketball team in a January 23 contest with visiting Bunnell of Stratford. That's because, although ...

To the Editor: When my husband, Harry Dieck, and I moved to Newtown from Westchester County to retire in June 2000, we believed we had made a good choice. I now know that we could not have made better choice. In November, Harry was diagnosed with a s...

Bernard "Bernie" Reiner, 91, of Newtown died peacefully January 22, at Danbury Hospital. He was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., a son of the late Sadie and Harry Reiner. After serving in the US Army, Mr Reiner briefly attended college through the GI ...

Newtown High School's girls' and boys' track and field teams participated in the Yale Classic in New Haven, January 19 and 20. They had some standout performances, highlighted by Carly Swierbut breaking South-West Conference records in the 300 and 40...

The Masuk-led high school girls' hockey team, which includes players from Newtown, Joel Barlow of Redding, Oxford, and Bethel, skated to its first win of the season on January 22. Coach Andy Townsend's Panthers defeated Trumbull-St Joes 5-1, at The R...

Concetta Alfano Leonetti, 90, of Trumbull died peacefully January 21 at Maefair Health Care Center, Trumbull. She was the beloved wife of the late Salvatore Leonetti. Born in Bridgeport on January 30, 1927, she was a daughter of the late Antonio and ...

Newtown High School's gymnastics team visited Jonathan Law in Milford on January 22 and, with 129.6 points, placed second behind Oxford (132.7) and beat Law (123.1). Emma Delia won the floor event with a score of 9.0, tied for third on bars (8.2), an...

Newtown High School's cheerleaders won the Connecticut Classic at Wolcott High School on January 20. Newtown had the best score of the day with an 88.4; the team competed against nine other schools in the All Girl Varsity division. Members of the che...

Newtown High School's boys' hockey team suffered a hard-fought 3-2 overtime loss to Lyman Hall/Haddam-Killingworth/Coginchaug, at Danbury Ice Arena, on January 19. Jiyei Hawke and David Brestovansky had goals in the game. The Nighthawks traveled to G...

To the Editor:The Bee on its excellent editorial "When A Moral Compass Goes South" [January 19, 2018]. The editorial was timely and on target. Kindness, compassion, understanding, and empathy are needed in today's world more than ever. Newtowners cer...