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Theater Review— ‘Molly Sweeney’ A Great Season Opener For Long Wharf By Julie Stern NEW HAVEN — For over twenty years, The Irish Repertory Theatre has worked to bring Irish and Irish-American works to ...

Family Dinner/Fun Night The Newtown Parent Connection, Inc, and the Newtown Prevention Council sponsored a Family Dinner/Fun Night event on Friday, September 23, at Reed Intermediate School to allow parents and children to have an evening out togeth...

Fair Draws Hundreds To Learn About Health/Safety By Andrew Gorosko The town’s 18th Annual Great American Health & Public Safety Fair held on Saturday, September 24, in and around Newtown Middle School drew hundreds of visitors and scores ...

Two Warrants Police said they arrested two men this week on assault charges in connection with a violent incident that occurred in July. After learning that police held a warrant for his arrest, David DeAngelis, 25, of Waterbury went to the poli...

Cutting Jobs Is Not The Answer To the Editor: I’ve been reading in The Newtown Bee for several weeks now about the outpouring of concern about the decision not to continue with the town’s school bus owner-operators.  After se...

Jake Lambert Lambert is a guard on Newtown High School’s freshman football team. Favorite part about playing: “The team atmosphere.” Toughest aspect: Practicing every day. When he ’s not ...

Wolfpack Wins Invitational The Newtown Wolfpack U10 girls’ travel soccer team went undefeated in the Madison Invitational Tournament this past weekend, outscoring four opponents a combined 18-0 en route to the division title. Game highlig...

—Robert Maynard Hutchins (1899–1977) Two considerations: *Several years ago, the Educational Testing Service “re-centered” SAT scores because the median score had dropped so much it was embarrassing. A...

More Than 1,000 Served During Inaugural Restaurant Week Newtown held its first annual Restaurant Week September 6–16, attracting more than 1,000 diners from over 12 towns throughout Fairfield County, according to organizers. The 11-day d...

Sharing The Road For Safety’s Sake: When Bicyclists, Pedestrians & Autos Struggle For Space By Kendra Bobowick Garrett Henchcliffe has had “a few close calls” with automobile traffic while cycling alone, with frien...