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Well, it wasn’t the Top of the Mountain, but it was the Top of the Cliff — that’s where seven members of the Newtown Venture Crew 70 found themselves this past Sunday. The middle and high school troop members spent...

Hawley Parents Voice Concern Over Potential Bus Schedule By Eliza Hallabeck Hawley parents voiced concern Monday, April 30, over a potential bus schedule change that could have Hawley students starting school later in the morning while aligning all ...

Phobias And Music To The Editor: The Newtown Choral Society played to an enthusiastic crowd as they presented their spring concert, Phobias, The Music, last Saturday at Newtown Meeting House. Embellishing on our favorite phobias through music, our d...

Esther Chmielewski A Well-lived Life Of Love And Laughter Esther Constance Chmielewski, 82, of Bennington, Vt., was born December 20, 1929, died April 29, and is finally able to rest. She could always tell a good joke. She had a great sense of...

*** The first steps toward the town’s taking over the historic Congregational Church building in the center of town has been taken by the Board of Selectmen. At its meeting, May 4, all three selectmen agreed to a letter of intent for the ...

Sandy Hook School Students Skype With New Hampshire Author By Eliza Hallabeck One by one, second grade students at Sandy Hook Elementary School stood up to ask a smiling face on the screen before them in the school’s library a question v...

Spreading Scary Stories About Health Care Rationing To the Editor: A writer to The Bee last week [Letter Hive, 4/27/12, “Why Obama Should Be ‘Dethroned”] repeated some scary predictions about how Obamacare will af...

Matt Austin, Steve Yudelson and Paulette Layton are all veteran performers in Brookfield and Ridgefield, but I think they were better here than I have ever seen them, which is definitely a tribute  to director Tim Sheehan. Theater Reviewâ€&#x94...

Budget Round 2 To the Editor: The annual budget referendum has produced interesting results. The proposed budget failed by a record margin and the finger pointing has begun. The town officials blame a lack of communication/loss of trust/failure to re...

State Initiative Ramps Up Training For Construction, Green Technology Jobs WETHERSFIELD — Connecticut, a national leader in adopting green building practices, is using a $5.8 million federal green jobs grant to expand the stateâ€&#x9...