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Published: Jul 27, 2024 at 08:00 AM
Newtown Ecumenical Workcamp Servants (NEWS) has safely returned from its 2024 service trip, having spent a week in the Gulf Coast city of Biloxi, Mississippi.
NEWS this year had 31 campers and nine chaperones travel to Biloxi, where they again worked...
Published: Jul 27, 2024 at 07:30 AM
Since July 1, Denise Kaiser, the Friends of the C.H. Booth Library Book Sale chairperson, has been preparing Reed Intermediate School for one of the largest used book sales in the region: the Friends of the C.H. Booth Library 48th annual book sale. T...
Published: Jul 27, 2024 at 07:00 AM
On the tennis court, Ella Morits and Margaret Donovan teamed up to form Newtown High School’s top doubles tandem. Senior captains this past spring, they have played their last tennis together as members of the Nighthawks but will be reunited in colle...
Updated: Jul 26, 2024 at 03:33 PM
UPDATE (3:33 pm): Wasserman Way has reopened.
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A major thoroughfare in town is temporarily closed this morning after a fluid leak led to a jack-knifed tractor trailer, which blocked both directions of the busy roadway.
Around 8:20 am on Fri...
Updated: Jul 26, 2024 at 08:33 AM
Composed by Lauren Clifford, Poet Laureate of Newtown, this was read during the
Bridge Dedication Ceremony
conducted at Sandy Hook Volunteer Fire & Rescue’s main station on Saturday, July 20.
He was raised in a firefighter’s house—
A hom...
Updated: Jul 26, 2024 at 03:30 PM
If the beautiful bumble bee weather vane atop our building looks particularly golden this week there’s good reason for it. Fifty years ago this week that unique weather vane, and even the cupola below it, was installed atop 5 Church Hill Road. A four...
Published: Jul 26, 2024 at 07:00 AM
The 9U Hawks battled hard during the New England Regional Tournament, held in New Canaan in mid July — hitting in big runs, coming back after being down multiple runs, waiting out rain and thunder delays, and playing six days straight. The Hawks went...
Updated: Jul 26, 2024 at 08:33 AM
State Representatives Mitch Bolinsky (R-106), Martin Foncello (R-107) and State Senator Tony Hwang along with the Sandy Hook Volunteer Fire and Rescue (SHVFR) and the Halstead family held a ceremony on July 20 to formally rename the Church Hill Road ...
Published: Jul 25, 2024 at 03:05 PM
To the Editor:
On Sunday, our President showed courage and strength in stepping down from his candidacy, putting the American people and democracy ahead of himself and his political future. History will record Joe Biden as one of America’s most signi...
Updated: Jul 25, 2024 at 03:31 PM
With the political season coming up, and a highly controversial and partisan one at that, The Newtown Bee has been re-evaluating its current policies around submissions of letters to the editor, as well as comments to the website.
These changes come ...
