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Beyond Candy Land Local Newtown father and educator Eric Paradis will lead a family board game event, Wednesday, December 30, at the C.H. Booth Library, from 1 to 4 pm. “Beyond Candy Land” goes beyond the standard family board...

Workshop: Rebuilding After A Life-Threatening Illness DANBURY — If you have been recently diagnosed with a life-threatening illness and are having difficulty coming to terms with the diagnosis, Healing Hearts is offering a workshop that ...

Peer S. Haugaard Beloved Husband And Father Peer S. Haugaard, 55, of Mt Pleasant, S.C., died December 9, after battling lung cancer. He was born October 24, 1954, in Majorca, Spain. He is survived by his loving wife of 26 years, Liz Borst Haugaa...

Seventy-Two Local Families Receive ‘Holiday Baskets’ By Andrew Gorosko Seventy-two local families will be having a brighter Christmas this year than would have been otherwise possible now that The Newtown Fund’s a...

Trinity Children Celebrate The Season Of Advent Every year the Trinity Church School classes collect money for the Bishop’s Fund for Children, which for the last 11 years has distributed more than $2.5 million to programs in Connecticut t...

Correction A story that ran December 18 about clarifying local political appointments when they are nominated by a party other than their registered party omitted a word in a statement by the chairman of the Independent Party of Newtown, Bruce Walcza...

The Artists The following is a list of the illustrators for The Bee’s Christmas covers for the past 50 years: 1959 – Dana Fradon, Lee Lorenz, Paul Webb 1960 – Dana Fradon, Lee Lorenz, Paul Webb 1961 – D...

Marijuana Police report that while on patrol about 9:52 pm December 21, they stopped motorist Dana VanBuskirk, 20, of 18 Poverty Hollow Road near 28 Church Hill Road because of an apparent motor vehicle violation. Police said that after stopping...

School Board Hears Of Student Alcohol And Drug Use By Eliza Hallabeck Assistant Superintendent of Schools Linda Gejda presented information to the Board of Education December 21 on the student survey results on alcohol and drug use in town. The surve...