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Published: Sep 07, 2024 at 07:00 AM
Winners of the South-West Conference Championship and third-place finishers in the State Championships last winter, Newtown High School’s cheerleading squad enters into the 2024-25 school year with a bit of a new look following the graduation of seve...
Published: Sep 07, 2024 at 07:00 AM
When Senator Tony Hwang called The Bee’s office a few weeks ago, he was shocked to learn of Ellen Therrien’s retirement. Following this phone call, Co-Publisher Sherri Baggett sent Hwang an email with the details about three other employees who were ...
Updated: Sep 09, 2024 at 08:32 AM
The Board of Education listened to a Facilities Study presentation delivered by Director of Facilities John Barlow during the board’s Tuesday, September 3 meeting.
As Barlow stated when introducing it to the Board, the Facilities Study is only a draf...
Updated: Sep 11, 2024 at 09:58 AM
September 10, 1999
HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER OF Jan Steinfeld.
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Monday’s less-than “picture perfect” weather could have kept the crowds away from Newtown’s 38th annual Labor Day Parade. But it didn’t. It may just as well have been sun and blue...
Updated: Sep 09, 2024 at 09:14 AM
When school started on a wide scale last week it was the first week at 5 Church Hill Road that we didn’t have our summer interns join us for our Editorial meeting on Monday morning. Eagle-eyed readers may have noticed bylines for Claire Baranovic and...
Updated: Sep 09, 2024 at 09:30 AM
In the late hours of August 27 or 28, a sign denoting the Borough of Newtown limit was cut down and stolen at the intersection of Castle Hill Road and Taunton Lake Road. The sign was placed in May of 2023, and only lasted “15 months,” according to Wa...
Updated: Sep 06, 2024 at 09:19 AM
UPDATE: The Pomperaug game date has been changed from October 11 to Thursday, October 10 at 7 pm.
Newtown High School’s football team is looking to qualify for the Class L State Playoffs and the Nighthawks will have their work cut out to get th...
Published: Sep 06, 2024 at 06:50 AM
Led by standout Soheib Dissa with a strong supporting cast of runners this could be a magical fall for Newtown High School’s boys’ cross country team.
“We return one of the best runners in the country in Soheib. We have a ton of talented runners — ho...
Updated: Sep 05, 2024 at 04:34 PM
Thousands turned out to celebrate Newtown’s 62nd Annual Labor Day Parade on Monday, September 2. A long-standing town tradition, the parade marks the end of the summer and has a wide range of participants, from bands, businesses, and organizations, t...
Published: Sep 05, 2024 at 04:00 PM
On August 22, hundreds of Newtown residents gathered to celebrate Mary Hawley’s birthday on the patio of the C.H. Booth Library. At least 230 people came for free Ferris Acres Creamery ice cream, but the representatives from Ferris ran out of ice cre...
