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Hikers Announce Spring Schedule Newtown Hikers will continue their spring 2012 schedule of weekly hikes with a trek along Al’s Trail right here in town on Saturday, April 21. Hikes, unless noted, are Saturdays starting at 9 am, from the l...

Resources For Young Startups HARTFORD — All across the state, young entrepreneurs are planning on opening their own business. And the Small Business Administration has tools and resources to help young business people succeed. The SBA re...

Share Newtown’s history with Newtown old-timers and newcomers alike by passing on photos of interest to The Newtown Bee. The Bee welcomes submissions of photos for “The Way We Were.” Photos can be submitted via e-m...

Golf Team Drops Close Matches To New Milford And Pomperaug Newtown High School’s golf team dropped a pair of close matches at Rock Ridge Country Club this past week and fell to 2-3 overall. In an April 11 match against New Milford, the N...

Pachysandra May Be Next Victim Of Boxwood Blight By Nancy K. Crevier The fungus Cylindrocladium buxicola, also known as Cylindrocladium pseudonaviculatum, and commonly known as boxwood blight, was identified in Fairfield County in October of 2011, ac...

Looking Ahead To Vacation Bible School MONROE — Vacation Bible School will be held at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, 466 Elm Street, from August 6 to 10 this year. Each day professionally trained/background checked counselors from Camp Ca...

Police Stop 42 Speed Violators Along Commuter Route   By Andrew Gorosko During a joint traffic enforcement project conducted during the past two weeks in southwestern Newtown and southeastern Redding, municipal police from the two towns stopped 42...

Presentation On Adolescent Mental Health Set For Parents The pupil personnel services staff at Newtown High School will discuss adolescent mental health during a presentation for parents scheduled for Thursday, May 10, at 7 pm, in the Newtown High Sc...

When Bullying Is Tolerated, The System Is At Fault To the Editor: As a teenager growing up in then-sleepy, reasonably peaceful Forest Hills, N.Y., I attended a local, highly-rated middle school just a few blocks from where I lived. During the course...

Aili Mowery  Richard B. Mowery and Liia M. Raamot of Newtown welcomed their first child, a daughter named Aili Esther Mowery, on Wednesday, March 21. Aili was born at 10:31 am. She weighed 8 pounds, 6 ounces, and was 20 inches long at birth.