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When the Newtown Holiday Festival returns to Main Street on Sunday, December 7, people of all ages looking for some holiday-themed fun should be able to find something that appeals to them. The festival runs from 11 am until 4 pm, rain, shine, or lig...

The 29th Newtown Holiday Festival will host a Gingerbread House Contest as one of its events on Sunday, December 7. Introduced in 2007, the competition invites families, friends, organizations and even individuals to create a candy confection to be p...

Goldrush, a local progressive bluegrass group, will add its contemporary sound to the usual holiday music that fills the first weekend of December in Newtown each year, with the new Jingle Bell Jam concert, Saturday, December 6, in the Alexandria Roo...

The information being related Friday morning in the C.H. Booth Library meeting room could very well have represented keynote remarks for a symposium on handling victims of mass casualty disasters. But it came with tears, hand-holding, fleeting video ...

UPDATE Tuesday, Decemer 2, 2014: This article has been updated to reflect a change of time for the Gentlemen’s Night Out event on December 8. * * * * *  Avancé Esthétiques Day Spa will host an exhibition showcasing the work of “three fabulo...

Help feed families in need through the Thanksgiving Basket Program, now in its 50th year. Women Involved in Newtown (WIN) coordinates a program to feed families as identified by Newtown Social Services throughout the holiday season. WIN seeks individ...

Issues of The Newtown Bee from November 20, 1964, and from November 20, 1914 were not available this week. November 17, 1989 The first College Fair to be sponsored by Newtown High School Guidance Department and the PTSA was held at the High...

Newtown High School is set to host its fall drama, Lend Me a Tenor, Thursday, November 20, to Sunday, November 23. Lend Me a Tenor, written by Ken Ludwig, is a comedy that takes place at the Cleveland Grand Opera Company in 1934. When the general...