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A Tree That Unifies Us To the Editor: With millions of trees in the world, often ignored as a group, one doesn’t necessarily bat an eye when they are cut down for the better good of a neighborhood. Yet, and for some strange reason, there ...

New Feel For Young Nighthawk Softball Squad This Season By Andy Hutchison For the past several years, Newtown High School’s softball team has been among the top schools in the South-West Conference. The loss of six players, between gradua...

John Georgevich Formerly Of Newtown John Georgevich, 90, died April 1, in Roseland, Fla. He was born May 21, 1921, in Pennsylvania.  Mr Georgevich served as an American Merchant Marine during World War II from 1942 to 1945, and was the recipie...

Homes For Our Troops To the Editor: Although neither my children nor myself are veterans, I volunteer as a fundraiser for Homes For Our Troops. Unknown to most Americans, the US government gives a one-time-only grant of less than $64,000 to wounded s...

Congratulations to Alexis Vaccaro, who was able to tell us that last week’s challenge (inset) is a piece of sculpture that can be found in a yard on Covered Bridge Road. She was the only reader who knew where that photo was taken, so she ...

Listen To The Sports Podcast Check out sounds of the games and hear interviews with coaches in weekly audio sports recaps on The Bee’s podcast. Sports and news coverage is available through The Buzz graphic on the News Now! section of Th...

What cause do you wish people would pay more attention to? Emma Schmid-Tharnish: Heifer.org. It’s a charity that you can donate money to, to help a team or a team’s goal, for a family to buy sheep or a flock of chickens. Josh...

Red Cross Family Caregiver’s Training; Public Invited To Any, All Sessions BROOKFIELD — A free Family Caregiver’s Training Program will take place on three consecutive Wednesdays — May 30, June 6, and J...

O’Leary Competes In Zone Championships Newtown’s Ryan O’Leary swam for the Connecticut zone team at last weekend’s Eastern Zone short course swimming championships in Webster NY. Only the top three sw...

Owner-Operator Labor Board Complaint Hearing To Continue By Eliza Hallabeck WETHERSFIELD — The state Board of Labor Relations continued its hearing, Friday, March 30, of a complaint by Newtown’s school bus owner-operators, wh...