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Newtown High School's gymnastics team has new coaches, as Head Coach Chelsie Eckman and Assistant Coach Juli Soracin take over, and former Nighthawk Anna Jannott, a club gymnast at the University of Connecticut, helps during her winter break. Eckman ...

Superintendent of Schools Joseph V. Erardi, Jr and Board of Education Chair Keith Alexander both offered a look back at 2016 in the final weeks of the year. With the completion and successful opening of the new Sandy Hook Elementary School building a...

Traditionally one of the top dance programs in the state, Newtown High School's squad - coming off championship success a year ago - is looking for more of the same in 2017. The Newtown dancers won South-West Conference championships in both the jazz...

There are many social issues that impact not only people nationwide and worldwide, but those who live in Newtown. Among those items addressed in The Newtown Bee in 2016 was guns, beginning with the January 5 announcement by President Barack Obama, re...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City houses the largest collection, spanning 5,000 years of art, in the world. Just approaching the massive building at the edge of Central Park on Fifth Avenue is like discovering a colossal Roman coliseum ...

By Nancy K. Crevier & Kendra Bobowick As the new year began in 2016, the quest for a site for a permanent memorial to 12/14 continued. The Sandy Hook Permanent Memorial Commission (SHPMC) determined criteria for a memorial site based on communit...

Often struggling throughout the year, community center planners and town officials succeeded in 2016 in bringing the project closer to construction. By year's end, the Public Building and Site Commission (PBSC) received from the Board of Selectman (B...

One game after a partial shutout, recent call-up goaltender Justin Halmose had a full game shutout, as Newtown High School's hockey team blanked Trinity Catholic of Stamford, 5-0, at Danbury Ice Arena, on December 30. Halmose, who had been playing on...

Police are urging residents to keep their unattended vehicles locked, and also to keep their houses locked at night in view of a string of criminal incidents that occurred early on the morning of Thursday, December 29. Police said that at approximate...

With all the technology being created, it may seem that board games have become an obsolete pastime of yesteryear, but Newtown residents would disagree. Many families are still turning to tried-and-true board games as a means of spending time with fr...