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Hawks Travel Ball The Connecticut Hawks Travel basketball program offers teams for boys in grades 3-4. The season starts in late-October/ early-November. Cost will depend on number of players. Contact Mike Murphy for information: mimurphy@carmelta.or...

Council Approves Charter Revision Ballot Question By John Voket To think of it simply, Legislative Council Chairman Jeff Capeci said the Charter Revision proposal that was unanimously approved for this November’s ballot represents a snaps...

YA Programs *Calling Young Writers of Newtown in grades 6–12. Be part of the first Newtown Arts Festival and read your poetry or selected prose to an appreciative audience on Sunday afternoon, September 16. Sign up online or call Mar...

Town & State Police To Conduct Sobriety Checkpoint Town police and state police plan to conduct a sobriety checkpoint in Newtown on the night of Friday, September 7, and the early morning hours of Saturday, September 8, to find and apprehend drunk dr...

Communications Issue— Police Morale Problems Under Review By Andrew Gorosko A criminal justice professor told Police Commission members this week that improving communications among rank-and-file police officers, the police chief, and the...

John Anthony Furanna, Jr John Anthony Furanna, Jr, 97, of Milford, died September 5, in Connecticut Hospice. The beloved husband of the late Lucille M. McKie Furanna, he was born April 18, 1915, in Naugatuck, to Margaret (Mangini) and John A. Furanna...

Parade Showed Off All That Makes Newtown Special To the Editor: You’ve done it again Newtown…you’ve proven one more time why it truly is nicer in Newtown! From start to finish, what a beautiful way to celebrate Labor D...

BOE Passes New School Bus Drop-Off Policy By Eliza Hallabeck With the unanimous approval of a new drop-off policy, the Board of Education on September 4 defined when students in kindergarten through fourth grade can be dropped off at their bus stops....

Hazardous Intersection Police report a two-car accident at the intersection of South Main Street and Swamp Road at about 1:50 pm on September 4. Police said that motorist Barbara Johnson of Danbury was driving a 1993 Saturn SL-1 sedan westward o...

Town Clerk Awaiting State Ruling On Independent Party Candidate By John Voket As the print edition of The Newtown Bee went to press Thursday, September 6, Town Clerk Debbie Aurelia was awaiting a ruling from the Connecticut Secretary of the Stateâ&#...