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Hawley Elementary School students had opportunities to shop at the PTA-run Holiday Bazaar, set up in the school’s multipurpose room, between December 7 and 11. Before students shopped at the bazaar, they visited it to make a list and add up the cost ...

Although Newtown High School’s boys’ swimming and diving team has to overcome the loss of 11 graduates from a year ago, expectations are high this season. How high? Newtown Coach Zach Gauvin has never had all of his team members qualify for the South...

Residents of Newtown’s Nunnawauk Meadows senior housing community may be eligible for assistance covering a number of supplemental services designed to help them live more independently and stay in their own homes. The initiative, called the Congrega...

Residents of Newtown’s Nunnawauk Meadows senior housing community may be eligible for assistance covering a number of supplemental services designed to help them live more independently and stay in their own homes. The initiative, called the Congrega...

Occupation: I’m a writer, and retired from The Newtown Bee in 2006. I worked at the Brookfield Journal before that, and prior to that I taught English to middle schoolers at private schools in Maryland and New Haven. Family: I’ve been married...

Middle Gate Elementary School teachers were surprised with new chairs, a new table, a new bookshelf, new artwork, and new decorations for the school’s teachers lounge between Thursday, December 10, and Monday, December 14. According to the school’s P...

A major mixed-use development planned for a 42-acre site off Hawleyville Road (Route 25), near the Exit 9 interchange of Interstate 84, has gained final approval from the Planning and Zoning Commission (P&Z), marking the land use agency’s endorsement...

Newtown Middle School Cluster 8 Purple students and teachers, along with other volunteers from the school, oversaw  on Tuesday, December 8, an American Red Cross blood drive and a simultaneous  food collection for FAITH (Food Assistance, Immediate Te...

This report was updated December 19 at 9 am with details on the election of the Vice-Chair and a commission secretary. John Godin, the only remaining Republican incumbent reelected to Newtown’s Board of Finance, cross-endorsed Democrat and forme...