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Clara D’Amico, a senior at Newtown High School, broke the school record for the 2K Steeplechase, which had stood since 2016. She attended the Glenn D. Loucks Memorial Track & Field Games the morning after senior prom and secured a spot at The Nike Ou...

To the Editor, As you have read in an earlier Bee article (“Newtown Celebrates Earth Day With Annual Festival,” May 3, 2024), Newtown’s Earth Day went well. The day was perfect, there seemed always to be a good crowd and the provided music, especiall...

To the Editor: Several months ago The Garden Club of Newtown launched a plan to install raised garden beds in the four rows at The Victory Garden that the club manages. After considerable research and number crunching, it was deemed that over the cou...

To the Editor: The Newtown Choral Society presented their spring concert “Inspired Shakespeare” to an enthusiastic crowd on Sunday, May 19, at The Meeting House. Our director, Mary Andreotta, led us in a program that included music inspired by Shakes...

To the Editor: I know the importance of the French army and specifically General Rochambeau in providing our Continental Army with the support it needed to finally defeat the British at Yorktown, Virginia. And being raised and educated in Newtown, I ...

To the Editor: The following open letter has been received for publication in The Newtown Bee. To whom it may concern, You are destroying things for everyone... Last weekend I had the opportunity for the first time in six months to go mountain bi...

To the Editor, Our Sourdough 101 bread baking class held on May 4 raised $700 for FAITH Food Pantry, a nonprofit that provides food assistance to our neighbors in need. This success was only made possible with the help of some wonderful people, who w...

After the smashing success of playwright Ken Ludwig’s first play, Lend Me a Tenor, he was tasked with writing a star vehicle for one of the preeminent comediennes of our time, Carol Burnett. That star vehicle became Moon Over Buffalo, a production of...

With two controversial issues potentially impacted by the town’s process for disposal of property, the sale of 6 Commerce Road and the discontinuance of Reservoir Road on 20-60 Castle Hill Road, both the Legislative Council and the Board of Selectmen...

The EmpowHer Newtown Award Committee, presented by the World Heritage Cultural Center (WHCC), met at HillTop Kitchen for the first time on May 18. The goal of the EmpowHer Awards is to recognize members of the community that help make positive change...