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Published: Aug 22, 2016 at 12:00 AM
State Department of Transportation (DOT) officials this week described plans to relocate the northern intersection of Pecks Lane and South Main Street (Route 25) to simplify a confusing junction, improve traffic flow, and reduce motor vehicle acciden...
Published: Aug 22, 2016 at 12:00 AM
With the first day of school approaching, Public Building and Site Commission Chair Robert Mitchell updated the Board of Education at its meeting on Tuesday, August 17, on two building projects overseen by his board: the new Sandy Hook Elementary Sch...
Published: Aug 22, 2016 at 12:00 AM
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Let's face it. Nonprofit organizations are finding it harder and harder to meet their funding requirements. We (the ...
Published: Aug 21, 2016 at 12:00 AM
This is the second segment of a three-part series covering the history and impending closure of St John's Episcopal Church.
If there is one thing the Reverend Mark Moore wants people to know about St John's Episcopal Church, it's this: the small...
Published: Aug 21, 2016 at 12:00 AM
Sandy Hook resident Katie Hazzard, a rising senior at Lauralton Hall in Milford, is offering a weekly program for eighth graders at C.H. Booth Library, starting September 15, that will share ways to "stress less," for her Girl Scout Gold Award projec...
Published: Aug 21, 2016 at 12:00 AM
The 89th running of The Whitney at Saratoga Race Course brings the best of older Thoroughbred horses to Saratoga Springs, N.Y. The iconic racetrack has seen a lot of history in its 153 years. And each August it continues to make history with two Grad...
Published: Aug 20, 2016 at 12:00 AM
Three seemingly blank pieces of gray panel hang on the wall of Town Historian Dan Cruson's office in the Edmond Town Hall. Yet, when a single spotlight shines across the boards, the glow unveils a piece of Newtown history.
Viewing the panel with the ...
Published: Aug 20, 2016 at 12:00 AM
Lifelong Newtown resident Chris Gardner drives past the flagpole on Main Street four to five times a day and says it still gives him "chills."
One of the first things he did after hearing about what happened on 12/14 was go to the flagpole and take a...
Published: Aug 20, 2016 at 12:00 AM
"The Opioid Crisis is real, it is now, and it is here," says Newtown Prevention Council (NPC) Co-Chair and Health District Director Donna Culbert.The Newtown Bee this week as she and her co-chairs, along with NPC leadership and supporters, complete p...
Published: Aug 20, 2016 at 12:00 AM
By John Voket
NEW HAVEN - The 19th Century French dramatist and poet Jean Baptiste Legouvé once wrote, "A brother is a friend given by Nature."
That may be true, but in the 21st Century, Ali Campbell - musician, songwriter, and co-founder of the mons...
