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Friday, September 23 FIRST DAY OF AUTUMN American Red Cross Blood Drive, 9 am–1:45 pm, Newtown Congregational Church, 14 West Street, donors must be at least age 17, in generally good health and weigh at least 110 pounds, appointment...

Pilots Continue To Carry Supplies To Vermont A Vermont Flood Relief box located at The Newtown Bee has been emptied and refilled several times with goods for those communities entirely washed out by flooding. Residents and pilots Ben Kugielsky and C...

Woods at Newtown— Developer Submits Plans for Proposed 178-Unit Condo Complex By Andrew Gorosko A residential development firm has submitted applications to the Planning and Zoning Commission (P&Z) and to the Inland Wetlands Commission (...

Independent Review Of Bus Contract Process Warranted To the Editor: Hats off the Board of Education! By throwing out the owner-operator schools bus program they have managed to cost several Newtowners jobs, damaged the tax base and place the school k...

Selectman’s Concern About FFH Ordinance Addressed By Town Attorney By John Voket The Board of Selectmen learned September 6 that some questions posed by Selectman William Furrier regarding a recently enacted council amendment to the Fairf...

Will Dalton Dalton, a Newtown High School student, is a wide receiver on the freshman football team, and plans to try out for the basketball team this winter. Favorite part about playing football: “The team unity. Toughest aspect:...

A Joy Forever To the Editor: “Its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.” British poet John Keats, in his poem “Endymion,” 1818, appropriately describes our majestic Fairfield Hills....

An Advocate For Traffic Safety To the Editor: As a candidate for the Board of Police Commissioners I would like to share with you my experiences working with the Newtown Police Commission. On an early September morning in 2009, I and my young childre...

High School Cross Country Teams Earn Victories Newtown High School’s girls’ and boys’ cross country teams both started the season well. The girls begin the year 6-0 and the boys started out 5-1. Both squads swept ...

Rock Ridge Men ’s League: Winner in this week’s Men’s League tourney was Tim Rahr, who was followed by John Kortze in second. Men ’s ABCD: The format was one best ball of the foursom...