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Published: May 21, 2016 at 12:00 AM
The Board of Education honored district staff members awarded the 2015-16 Profiles in Professionalism award at its meeting on Tuesday, May 17.'Above And Beyond'
Superintendent of Schools Joseph V. Erardi, Jr, said the 2015-16 Profiles of Professiona...
Published: May 21, 2016 at 12:00 AM
Sometime before the first full week of June, residents on Violette Road in Hawleyville will be restricted from using the northern end of the short avenue that connects Pocono Road to Mt Pleasant Road.
Newtown Public Works Director Fred Hurley...
Published: May 21, 2016 at 12:00 AM
Newtown officials who were anticipating dealing with about $400,000 in budgetary red ink because of changes to state revenue formulas are now seeing figures nudge into the black, thanks to an eleventh-hour special session modification in a motor vehi...
Published: May 21, 2016 at 12:00 AM
The Connecticut Freedom of Information Commission (FOIC) has sent a preliminary ruling in the cases of two Newtown complainants back to the commission's hearing officer for what was described as a request for further clarification of several points i...
Published: May 21, 2016 at 12:00 AM
Despite multiple comeback efforts, Newtown High School's baseball team came up short in a 7-5 defeat to visiting New Fairfield, in the South-West Conference tournament quarterfinals on May 21.
The Nighthawks, who were 15-5 overall and 11-2 in SWC pla...
Published: May 20, 2016 at 12:00 AM
I found a dead bluebird in a nest box by the barn. She lay intact, her head and neck crooked in the corner of the box where she died. Cool blue. A bit of sky enclosed in a pine box.Those Of The Forest, wildlife biologist Wallace Byron Grange describe...
Published: May 20, 2016 at 12:00 AM
Come 5 am this Sunday, hundreds of bleary-eyed people will be packing up booths, overnight supplies, games, and sneakers and rubbing their tired tootsies as they pour out of NYA Sports & Fitness Center at Fairfield Hills. If they look like weary warr...
Published: May 20, 2016 at 12:00 AM
Both Hawley Elementary School and Head O' Meadow Elementary School celebrated reading the week of Monday, May 9, to Friday, May 13.
Hawley and Head O' Meadow held multiple activities throughout the week to celebrate reading.
Author Melissa Stewart vi...
Published: May 20, 2016 at 12:00 AM
This week marks a truly significant moment in the history of The Newtown Bee, as longtime Editor Curtiss Clark closes this chapter of his life. As a cat that has found a comfy cushion in this office for nearly as long as Curtiss, I can say that as sa...
Published: May 20, 2016 at 12:00 AM
Two Accidents
At about 4:17 pm on May 8, motorist Thomas Vanbuskirk, 54, of Ridgewood, N.J., who was driving a 2001 Mercedes-Benz vehicle eastward on Interstate 84, near Exit 9, slowed for traffic conditions and was then struck from behind by mo...
