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Garner Inmate Arrested In Prison Assault Case State police said they received a report about 11 pm on June 12 concerning an inmate having assaulted a correction officer at Garner Correctional Institution, the state’s high-security prison ...

On Friday, June 8, Chase Collegiate School held its 144th Commencement exercises and out of the 45 graduating seniors, three were local residents. Photographed, from left, are Nicole Haghpanah of Newtown, recipient of the Faculty Award given annually...

Since its inception in 2009 the NICE program has had more than 100 students, teachers, and administrators participate in the study tour program to China, visiting a sister school in Liaocheng. For the 2012-13 school year the program will be expanded ...

Nancy Sealund Nancy (Rasmussen) Sealund, 75, of Newtown, died, after a long illness, June 18, at the Glen Hill Convalescent Center in Danbury. She was born May 18, 1937, the daughter of Laura (Andrews) and Carl Edward Rasmussen, in the home in which ...

Quite A Race — Rooster Run Features 450-Plus Finishers The 38th Annual 5K Rooster Run/Walk brought out more than 450 fitness enthusiasts — some ultra-competitive, others not so serious — on a perfect-for-anything-o...

U6 McCann Brothers vs Carminuccio ’s: Carminuccio’s Pizza lit up the field with outfield hits by Abigail McManus and Erin Marshall. Defensively, Ashley Hubner had quick stops and coverage at the pitchers mound. ...

Passing Another Milestone At The Newtown Bee: 135 Years And Counting In the last week of June in 1877, the very first issue of The Newtown Bee was circulated in to the people of Newtown. To mark the occasion, The Bee arranged to have this birthday ...

Unselfish Service To the Editor: This is to all our local owner operator bus drivers! Thank you for your unselfish service to our children and our town. I cannot remember a day in my life that we didn’t have you, and now this day has come...

Farmers Market Offers A Taste Of The Garden By Kendra Bobowick Licking his lips after a helping of blueberry-peach pie, Dylan Rakauskas reluctantly turned away from the Whistle Stop Bakery stand. With a sign announcing free pie tasting, the Whistle S...

National Qualifiers Make A Splash Michael Senf, of Newtown, and teammate Blaze Kelly, of New Milford, qualified for Nationals after winning gold medals in the 2x light weight junior men’s category at the Northeast Junior Regional Rowing C...