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It's an overcast Monday morning. Drivers are pushing to start their work week. Older students are arriving at Newtown High School in their vehicles, while parents of other children are queuing up to drop off their offspring. School buses are also a l...

St Rose of Lima School has a new sandbox for its preschool students, thanks to Boy Scout Troop 270 member Gabriel "Gabe" Locke, who created it for his Eagle Scout project. Gabe attends Henry Abbott Technical High School in Danbury. A dedication cerem...

The 6th Annual Newtown Arts Festival weekend, which ran September 15-17, included performances, crafts, artisans and craftspeople selling their works, and an evening of music, all centered in the soccer fields at Fairfield Hills. The weekend began wi...

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"We're getting two for the price of one!" That was the sentiment from Town Director of Planning George Benson after pointing out that remediation crews were outside the deteriorating Woodbury Hall waiting to get to work on preparations for demolition...

Like a few of my fellow Bees, you may have noticed a familiar face while watching television on the evening of September 16. Captain Drew Taylor, son of Kaki and Fred Taylor of Newtown, was featured during a piece on NBC Nightly News that aired on Se...

It is safe to say that all four Republican members of Newtown's state legislative delegation were pinching themselves, figuratively if not literally, as Democratic colleagues crossed the aisle in both the Senate and General Assembly last weekend to a...

Newtown High School senior Allen Xue learned on September 13 that he has been named a semifinalist in the 63rd Annual National Merit Scholarship Program. Interim Superintendent of Schools Lorrie Rodrigue and Newtown High School Interim Principal Davi...

The phrase "it is not working" was repeated multiple times by members of the public at the September 19 Board of Education meeting in response to the reconfigured transportation system. School board members went on to support Interim Superintendent o...

Occupation: I had a couple jobs throughout my life. After high school, I attended Norwalk Hospital School of Nursing for a year and a half, but had to leave. When I came home, my father said I had to find a job. I made hearing aids in Danbury for...