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The fifth annual National High School Musical Theater Awards was held on Monday, July 1, at the Minskoff Theatre on Broadway. Newtown High School Class of 2013 graduate Taylor Varga, winner of the Connecticut High School Musical Theater Awards, perfo...

Artist and resident Jim Chillington propped his easel on the sidewalk  outside The Newtown Bee at 5 Church Hill Road and quickly sketched a view. Taking shape on his canvas was the newspaper’s façade, and in quick strokes the branches of a Japanese M...

While First Selectman Pat Llodra announced last week that the majority of post-12/14 events have already been scheduled and/or announced, she also hinted that there were two special events that were still coming while students and families were enjoy...

Summer thrums. Life is ascendant under the summer sun, endlessly cycling in little eddies cast up in the wake of successively larger cycles of seasons, planets, stars, and galaxies. Each cycle has its own frequency, its own back and forth, hither and...

While First Selectman Pat Llodra announced last week that the majority of post-12/14 events have already been scheduled and/or announced, she also hinted that there were two special events that were still coming while students and families were enjoy...

Joseph E. Yanzo, Jr, 71, of Newtown, widower of the late Elizabeth Rogers Maestro Yanzo, died peacefully on Sunday, June 30, surrounded by all of his children after a hard-fought battle with leukemia. Mr Yanzo was born in Bridgeport on July 21, 1941,...

A post by First Selectman Pat Llodra at OneNewtown.org suggests it is time for all residents to move “into a quiet period of rest, recuperation, and healing.” On Thursday, June 27, Mrs Llodra used her blog to announce that while countless offers have...

Summer thrums. Life is ascendant under the summer sun, endlessly cycling in little eddies cast up in the wake of successively larger cycles of seasons, planets, stars, and galaxies. Each cycle has its own frequency, its own back and forth, hither and...