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Geese Are Likely Culprits In Eight-Day Closure At Eichler’s Cove By John Voket Eichler’s Cove, Newtown’s only fresh water beach facility, will remain closed through Friday, August 6, according to Newtown Health Dis...

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.                                                          Â...

Prison Inmate Arrested On Assault Charge On the morning of July 30, state police served an arrest warrant at Danbury Superior Court against a former Garner Correctional Institution inmate in connection with a past unspecified violent incident at the...

Tech Assistance Available As Health Records Go Paperless HARTFORD — US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has announced final rules that set criteria for the “meaningful use” ...

The dispatchers in the emergency communications center at Town Hall South report the following fire calls and the primary units which responded: Thursday, July 29: 8:22 am, wires down, near 30 Rock Ridge Road, Dodgingtown responded; 8:53 am, moto...

Friday, August 6 American Red Cross Blood Drive, 9 am–1:45 pm, Charter Communications, 9 Commerce Road, donors must be at least age 18, weigh at least 110 pounds and be in generally good health, appointments available; 800-RED-CROSS ...

To the Editor: As the death knell rings for our country do we understand what has happened? Our country was created as a constitutional republic to protect our freedoms and liberties. Today we are in the grips of fascism, socialism, and on the road t...

Saint Raphael’s Home To New ACS Resource Center NEW HAVEN — The Father Michael J. McGivney Center for Cancer Care at the Hospital of Saint Raphael is scheduled to formally open a new American Cancer Society Resource Center at ...

To the Editor: I seldom find myself writing a letter to the editor. I am usually at my breakfast table on Saturday morning reading The Newtown Bee to learn what my fellow townsfolk have to say. However, I am so enthusiastic in my support of our State...

Refurbished Trail Extends Into Newtown By Kendra Bobowick Are the trails ready to use? “Yes!” said Trails Committee Chairman Scott Coleman. Stepping carefully over compacted ground knotted with exposed tree roots and old railr...