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Special Education— Young Lives At Opposite Ends Of The Autism Spectrum By Nancy K. Crevier (As part of an ongoing series on special education, this report looks at transitioning into the teen and young adult years for children with d...

Owner-Operators, All-Star Describe Services At Special Saturday BOE Meeting By John Voket With two bright yellow buses sitting just outside the Newtown High School cafetorium, the local owner-operators represented by Beth Koschel and Carey Schierloh ...

Ceremony To Honor Victims Of 9/11 Local resident and former Wall Street trader Howard Lasher invites the public to attend a special memorial service, Sunday, September 11, to take place on his Route 302 property in Dodgingtown, at 8:15 am. Newtown Bo...

As Irene Approaches— Officials Warn: Beware Of Closed Roads, Downed Wires By John Voket As Newtown welcomes hurricane season with the likelihood of heavy cast-off rains from US-bound Hurricane Irene this weekend, local emergency managemen...

In-House Softball Registration Registration for Newtown Softball’s In-House fall recreational season is available online at www.newtownsoftball.org. The fee for the spring season is $95 with a late fee of $20 after August 31. All girls bo...

Amyla Posey Posey, who will be going into third grade this fall, participated in the Murphy Basketball Camp at Newtown Youth Academy this summer. Favorite part about playing basketball: “Everything.” Lucky number: 20. ...

Tips To Turn Your Child Into A Better Reader StatePoint — Reading is the most important skill that children need to master to be successful in school and life. However, kids increasingly are struggling with this most basic of academic ab...

Newcomers & Neighbors Planning Annual Open House The Newtown Newcomers & Neighbors Club will host its annual open house on Tuesday, September 20, from 5:30 to 7:30 pm, at Cyrenius H. Booth Library, 25 Main Street. Admission is free. Founded in 1995 ...

When I felt the floor rolling beneath my feet, Tuesday afternoon, I thought someone had slipped some catnip into my lunchtime bowl of milk. But then I noticed everyone in The Bee office frozen in place, slack-jawed, with equally quizzical looks on th...

Senior services for Newtown seniors are available at the Multipurpose Building on Riverside Road in Sandy Hook. The Senior Center is under the auspices of the Commission on Aging. The center is run by Senior Services Director Marilyn Place. For infor...