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A Helping Hand For FAITH Food Pantry FAITH Food Pantry recently received a sizeable financial donation from Stop & Shop in Sand Hill Plaza. “This donation is an example of the wonderful support the business community of Newtown gives to ...

New State, Fed Programs Focusing On Women, Minority Owned Businesses By John Voket As national, state and local economies begin recovering from the recent recession, a number of initiatives are rolling out to help women- and minority-owned businesse...

Squirts Skate In Tourney Newtown hockey players Jack Hanley and Ethan Cox helped the Western Connecticut Youth Hockey Squirt A team battle in the Springfield Pics Presidents’ Day Tournament at the Olympia Ice Center in West Springfield, M...

Following Brief Hearing— Hart, Llodra Team Up For Proposed Budget Overview By John Voket Only two residents, one a former official, spoke at the Board of Finance’s public hearing on the budget February 17. But the hearing was ...

Local Effort To Build A School In Cambodia Will ‘Rock’ This Friday By Eliza Hallabeck A performance this Friday, February 25, by The Sean Fleming Band at The Fox Hill Inn, Brookfield, from 7 to 11 pm, will raise money for the...

Monthly Diabetes Support Group Meeting BRIDGEPORT — St Vincent’s Medical Center and Animas Corporation, a Johnson & Johnson Company, are co-sponsoring a new monthly Diabetes Support Group at the hospital. Participants will le...

FOI Commission Cites School Board For Violations By John Voket Nearly 11 months after Newtown’s Board of Education convened into closed or executive session to conduct a critical evaluation of its then vice chairman Kathryn Fetchick, the ...

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 more ...

Bond Agency Point On Fund Balance Is ‘Shot Across Our Bow’ By John Voket While the Town of Newtown completed another successful bond offering this week, the meeting local officials had with two rating agencies generated what w...

Lyddy: State Military Has No Solid Plans For Proposed Horse Guard Merger By John Voket Newtown’s Representative Chris Lyddy told The Bee this week that after attending a hearing on the proposed state budget Wednesday evening, a proposal t...