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A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected.  —Carl Sandburg Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous.  In war you ca...

A Successful Fall Festival To the Editor: On behalf of the Board at Trinity Day School, I would like to thank everyone who helped make our Fall Festival on October 16 such a success. Thank you to Steve and Diana Paproski at Castle Hill for sharing th...

Safer Bus Stops To the Editor: Like any parent would be, I am very proud of my two daughters writing letters to the editor expressing their concern for safer bus stops and fairness under the rule of law. They are expressing what they are experiencing...

Political Promises To the Editor: Political promises are easy to make and hard to keep. Most of us instinctively know this. Yet I am receiving, on a daily basis, large political postcards making bold promises to me. These promises seem to be getting ...

To the Editor: As a policy social worker, I am convinced that social workers are uniquely trained and specifically qualified to serve the community by representing our needs in government. I take offense that the Ferguson campaign continues to insinu...

Board Looks To Financial Future By John Voket In the first of two expected sessions, the Board of Finance was scheduled to discuss the next five years of capital planning Thursday, October 28. The meeting occurred after The Bee went to press, and upd...

A Great Event To the Editor: Earlier this week I attended the Toastmasters Division D Speech Contest at the Fairfield library. The event packed the meeting room with people standing in the back. I would like to congratulate our Newtown neighbor Alend...

After two weeks of looking around Newtown, no one was able to tell us that our latest challenge (inset) showed the mailbox that belongs to the house at 43 Appleblossom Lane, which happens to lead out onto Dogwood Terrace. We would have accepted eithe...

Newtown Squirts Win NESC Haunted Shootout Hockey Tournament The Western Connecticut Youth Hockey Association’s Squirt B Team, with four Newtown players, took the championship trophy home by winning all five games in their division at the...

NMS Tag Sale Helped Roughly 40 Families By Eliza Hallabeck While the front lawn at Newtown Middle School was attracting attention for the 2010 Scarecrow Contest on Sunday, October 24, NMS parents and students from Cluster 8 Purple were busy overseein...