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Published: Aug 16, 2013 at 12:00 AM
Following an August 15 caucus, The Independent Party of Newtown announced it would not be fielding any candidates for local office this November.
Party Chairman Bruce Walczak issued a brief press release touting a number of areas where he said the pa...
Published: Aug 16, 2013 at 12:00 AM
Marion R. Haitsch, 91, of Newtown, died August 13, at Danbury Hospital. She was born April 6, 1922, in Danbury, daughter of Emelie (Prokopy) and John Haitsch.
Ms Haitsch was a charter member of Christ the King Lutheran Church. She was a church histor...
Published: Aug 16, 2013 at 12:00 AM
The morning and afternoon school bus routes for Newtown High School and Newtown Middle School published in The Bee's Back to School supplement this week were incomplete. Several bus routes were omitted.
A complete listing is available here for mornin...
Published: Aug 16, 2013 at 12:00 AM
By August 9, a three-man crew from Timber Ridge Tree Service of Newtown took down roughly 18 mature trees to clear the way for a new ambulance garage at Fairfield Hills. Spruce, maple, and willows trees — some choked with invasive barberry — fell as ...
Published: Aug 16, 2013 at 12:00 AM
August 19, 1988
Even though the recent high temperatures have modified, people are still talking about the great heat wave of the summer of ’88. And the cool front came not a minute too soon as far as roofers, farmers and air conditioning repair...
Published: Aug 16, 2013 at 12:00 AM
It was not just the 25 kids who took part in the History Camp last month at the (un-air-conditioned) Matthew Curtiss House on Main Street who sweltered during the heat wave. So did the teachers who served every day for the whole week. “They directed ...
Published: Aug 15, 2013 at 12:00 AM
DUI Arrest
Police said that at about 11:45 pm on August 8, a 17-year-old boy was driving a Ford Escort auto in the parking lot at the Mobil gas station/convenience store at 62 Church Hill Road.
The boy then attempted to park the Ford, but collid...
Published: Aug 15, 2013 at 12:00 AM
The Sandy Hook Sole Sisters are sponsoring a fundraising tag sale on Saturday, August 24, from 9 am to 3 pm. The event will support their participation in the 40-mile Avon Breast Cancer walk October 19-20 in New York City.
There will be something for...
Published: Aug 15, 2013 at 12:00 AM
Christ The King Lutheran Church, at 85 Mount Pleasant Road in Newtown, will be hosting a retriever reunion of sorts on Saturday, August 31. From 10 am until 1 pm, the Lutheran Church Charities K-9 Comfort Dogs will be returning, just in time for the ...
Published: Aug 15, 2013 at 12:00 AM
Madeline (Vaast) Kenefic, 91, resident of Newtown, and wife to the late Joseph F. Kenefic, died August 11, at Danbury Hospital. She was born December 15, 1921, in Norwalk, daughter of Mary (Bain Brimacombe) and Jules Vaast.
She resided in Norwalk dur...
