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Tenth Anniversary Of 9/11 Observed In Sandy Hook By Shannon Hicks On the tenth anniversary of 9/11, emergency services personnel from Newtown’s five volunteer fire companies, its volunteer ambulance corps, a police officer, elected offici...

Take A Dog Home From The Pound The following dogs, Luna and Stella, are among those available for adoption from the Newtown pound, which is located at the end of Ethan Allen Road (behind the transfer station). Luna and Stella were raised together bu...

Never Left In The Dark To the Editor: (The following letter to First Selectman Pat Llodra has been received for publication in The Newtown Bee.) We didn’t have any power, but we weren’t in the dark with your timely update...

Practical Help From Neighbors And Family To the Editor: We would like to thank our neighbors and family for their practical help during the outages and damage caused by Irene, August 28 to September 5. Most welcome were an extra cellphone, water, au...

Doggone Etiquette — Practical Obedience By Bardi McLennan A Word to the Dog:            You went to school and you did so well that everyone – your teacher, your owner, and even your classmates – ad...

Sandy Hook FD Planning Open House Sandy Hook Volunteer Fire & Rescue Co. will host an open house on Sunday, October 2. The public is invited to visit the company’s main station, at 18-20 Riverside Road, between 11 am and 2 pm. Members wil...

Mt Pleasant DUI A resident complaint about a vehicle being operated erratically on Mt Pleasant Road led to the DUI arrest of Meghan Sanchez, 38, of Waterbury just after midnight on September 13. Following the complaint, local officers went to th...

First Selectman And First Responders Brought Repeated Relief To the Editor: I would like to send an enormous thank-you out to First Selectman Pat Llodra and the Police and Botsford/Newtown Fire Department. I was awoken early in the morning on the 28...

Contents of Vaillant Estate Selling At Fairfield Auction MONROE — Fairfield Auction will sell hundreds of items, undisturbed for decades, from the estate of artist Louis David Vaillant (1875-1944) at their gallery on September 18. Situat...

Ukrainian Festival Rescheduled To September 25 The 36th annual Ukrainian Festival will be held on Sunday, September 25, at Paproski’s Castle Hill Farm, 5 Sugar Lane (off Route 302). The festival has been rescheduled from its original date...