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Published: May 27, 2013 at 12:00 AM
(This is the tenth installation of a series of stories that share with readers special events that continue to take place as Newtown heals following the events of 12/14 at Sandy Hook School. It is also a continuation of anecdotes from across the ...
Published: May 27, 2013 at 12:00 AM
Placing a five-gallon pail on a drop cloth in the woods, bird bander and resident Larry Fischer reached in for the first of five baby screech owls.
Crouched around the pail were Diane and Stephen Costallos’s children Morgan, 7, Cooper, 3, and Aspen, ...
Published: May 26, 2013 at 12:00 AM
HARTFORD (AP) — Connecticut lawmakers on Thursday began building on a package of reforms the General Assembly passed in April that addressed the Newtown school shooting, requiring annual firearms safety training for armed security in local schools an...
Published: May 26, 2013 at 12:00 AM
HARTFORD (AP) — Connecticut is making $5 million available immediately to cities and towns to help reimburse them for school safety and security upgrades following 12/14.
Governor Dannel P. Malloy announced the first round of funding on May 24 for th...
Published: May 26, 2013 at 12:00 AM
HARTFORD (AP) — Connecticut’s Freedom of Information Commission on Friday denied a bid by Newtown officials to postpone a hearing on a request by The Associated Press for records related to the gunman in December’s school shooting.
An attorney for th...
Published: May 26, 2013 at 12:00 AM
The US Department of Education announced on Friday, May 24, it is awarding more than $1.3 million to Newtown Public School District to help with ongoing recovery efforts following the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School on 12/14. This grant, wh...
Published: May 25, 2013 at 12:00 AM
Days of rain and a swollen, rushing river on May 25 changed traditional plans for the 13th Annual Great Pootatuck Duck Race.
Rather than floating plastic ducks along the Pootatuck River and fishing the winners from a collection point downstream, even...
Published: May 25, 2013 at 12:00 AM
Looks like 13 is not a lucky number for Newtown Lions Club.
Less than 24 hours after telling The Newtown Bee that the 13th Annual Great Pootatuck Duck Race would go on, rain or shine, event chair Bob Schmidt had to announce that the weather has chang...
Published: May 25, 2013 at 12:00 AM
Dashed onto a canvas in oils is an image of Sabrina Style’s front window, dresses displayed in the pane glass of the Washington Avenue dress shop and boutique. Again with dabs of vibrant oil colors, Main Street and other Newtown and Sandy Hook scenes...
Updated: Feb 09, 2024 at 02:24 PM
Sandy Hook Center has a new Christmas tree.
Crews began working before 8 am on a rainy and chilly Friday, putting final touches on the ground and then readying a 32-foot Norway Spruce to be moved out of a truck-mounted tree spade, and then into a hol...
