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Captain Joe Rios, 53, a 26-year veteran of the Newtown Police Department, is retiring as a town police officer to take a position with the Norwalk public school system, where, as a civilian, he will oversee safety and preparedness for the public scho...

BRIDGEPORT - The plaintiffs and the defendants in the ongoing Sandy Hook Elementary School gun lawsuit continue to pursue their respective, but divergent, legal goals in the state Superior Court case. The plaintiffs want to obtain detailed informatio...

UPDATE (Friday, September 9, 2016): During a Sandy Hook Permanent Memorial Commission meeting Thursday, September 8, two days after this site walk, commissioners voted to look elsewhere for a permanent memorial location. The parcel off of Nunnawa...

A late-winter warm spell that led to early flower buds, followed by a harsh spring frost, then drought-like summer conditions have combined to make for a challenging growing season for home gardeners and commercial farmers alike. As more and more veg...

This season's Newtown versus New Fairfield high school football game was - in multiple ways - the polar opposite of last year's battle of South-West Conference foes. That was a good thing for the Nighthawks, who avenged their lone regular-season defe...

The next free movie at Edmond Town Hall to be sponsored by Ingersoll Auto of Danbury will be the 7 pm screening of Ghostbusters on Saturday, September 10.Ghostbusters franchise was released in July. Based on the 1984 film written by Dan Aykroyd and H...

Newtown High School alumni band Panacea performed to a packed crowd at the Dickinson Memorial Park pavilion on Sunday, September 4.To learn more about Panacea and stay up to date on their next reunion, check out Panacea Newtown on facebook. Audience...

To the Editor: At the September 8 meeting of the Sandy Hook Permanent Memorial Commission, it was unanimously voted to remove the Nunnawauk Road parcel of land from consideration to honor the victims of the Sandy Hook School shooting. The location, a...

To the Editor:The Newtown Bee, online at www.newtownbee.com]. Okay, there is no argument that the Botsford Fire & Rescue did a stupid, bonehead thing by attaching a political placard to their fire/rescue vehicles. Dumb, dumb, dumb. So what should we ...

September 27, 1991 The controversy surrounding the security and notification procedures at the Western Substance Abuse Treatment Unit has spurred action on both levels. The warden at WSATU indicated it was the correctional personnel's fault that...