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Newtown High School’s girls’ basketball team got off to a winning start this winter, building a commanding early lead on the way to a 47-18 victory over visiting Bassick of Bridgeport in the season opener, on December 13. The Nighthawks scored 18 in ...

Public Works Director Fred Hurley and residents Beverly Bennett-Schaedler and Barbara Bloom gathered on the south side of the Municipal Center to celebrate new handicap parking spaces. At the September Commission on Aging meeting, Bennett-Schaedler a...

Piper, the senior member of The Newtown Bee canine security team, slipped the lead of life this month, shortly after being diagnosed with lung cancer.

The print editions of the December 27, 2024 and January 3, 2025 Newtown Bee will have early deadlines ahead of the Christmas and New Year holidays. All Editorial content is due by noon Monday, December 23, for the print edition of December 27; and by...

To the Editor: I am writing to express my sincere gratitude to the entire team of Sandy Hook Fire Department. My name is Maria Sadlier and I was part of this great community of Newtown and served on Newtown Ambulance for 20 years. I received a teleph...

To the Editor: A network evening news show recently showed closeup shots of three supposed mystery drones. There may be mystery drones out there but these were not among them. On all three I spotted flashing red and green wingtip nav lights, and on o...

To the Editor: As a resident of Newtown (Sandy Hook) for the past 11 years it was truly heartwarming, at a recent meeting of the town’s Planning & Zoning Commission, to hear the impassioned pleas of longtime/lifetime residents defending Nature’s defe...

To the Editor: I’ve lived on Main Street nearly my whole life, I can say it is a tight knit neighborhood. So, the events of last Friday afternoon were that much more shocking. My mom took our dog, Coby, for his afternoon walk. While crossing from New...

To the Editor, On Friday, December 13 at 4:20 pm on Main Street between the General Store and entrance to Newtown Savings Bank crosswalk a speeding driver struck, ran over, and killed a family dog being walked by his owner on a leash. It was a miracl...

To the Editor: One has to give Vessel Technologies credit for taking a known problem, lack of affordable housing, and threading through multiple loopholes and exceptions to avoid reviews and restrictions to gain approval for an untested high-tech str...