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Keeping Your Pets Happy And Safe When Boarding By John Voket How young is too young to board our puppy while we go on vacation? Is there a better time to board our mature dog? What is the best way to ensure my pet’s first-time experience...

Alexandra A. Gardner Alexandra A. Gardner, 24, of St Petersburg, Fla., died June 9. Born in St Petersburg, she was raised in Newtown, and graduated from Newtown High School in 2006, before returning to Florida. She is remembered as a spunky, wonderf...

Send Us Your Horse News Please send horse show information, including details about upcoming shows, results from recent competitions, along with fundraising events, via email to andyh@thebee.com.

Selectmen Express Concerns— Revised Town Budget Request Falls Below Current Year’s Spending By John Voket Selectmen Will Rodgers and James Gaston both expressed concerns about the reduction in town services resulting from redu...

Women’s Softball Newtown Women’s Softball is offered for players 18 years old. Individuals and teams are encouraged to register for a summer league which will run from mid-June through the end of August. The season closes with...

Minority Tyranny To the Editor: Last week I attended our town council meeting regarding our third budget defeat and to set a new vote date and budget amount. I was also there to say, like the majority who voted No — my vote meant No new i...

Many Supported Hospice At Annual Breakfast To the Editor: On June 6, Newtown’s high octane community spirit prevailed once again, packing The Waterview with more than 450 generous, compassionate hearts who raised $25,000 to support famil...

Bantam Hawks Unbeaten Newtown’s Bantam Hawks lacrosse team capped off an undefeated season with an 8-6 victory over the Wilton Warriors on June 8 at Newtown High School. The Hawks went 9-0 this season with victories over Danbury, Relax, N...

When Newtown Is Not So Nice To the Editor Having sat through each of the Legislative Council meetings that followed the successive rejections by Newtown’s voters of the proposed budgets for FY2012-2013, I would like to offer a comment. Ea...

Cans And Bottles For Cancer Fight To the Editor: 14,514 cans and bottles! Sounds impressive and it is! Richard and I returned that many cans and bottles to make a whopping sum of $725.70 for Relay For Life (cancer) and received donations of $145 to m...