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Published: Jul 29, 2023 at 07:00 AM
Thanks to support generated from a Newtown Bee Letter Hive appeal, a seemingly unaffected and downright perky 11-year-old poodle mix recently rescued from a New York dog pound is recovering after a local veterinarian removed a half-pound tumor from h...
Updated: Aug 07, 2023 at 04:42 PM
July 31, 1998
HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER OF Bob Histon.
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To hundreds of Newtown kids, he was known as “Uncle Charlie,” but to his daughter, he was simply known as Dad. So Beth Rudolph-Koschel couldn’t help but feel a little strange last Septemb...
Updated: Jul 28, 2023 at 02:12 PM
Rachel Flora Gaddis, 90, passed away peacefully at her home in Ocean Isle Beach, N.C. on July 18, 2023.
Rachel was born September 13,1932, in Barre, Vt., daughter of the late Alfred and Marquerite Groleax Lehoux. A graduate of Strafford High School i...
Published: Jul 28, 2023 at 07:00 AM
NEW MILFORD — Long before composer Stephen Schwartz’s mega hit Wicked became a worldwide phenomenon, Schwartz wrote a different pseudohistorical musical, Pippin.
Director Francis A. Daley has brought the latter to life once again in a lively new prod...
Published: Jul 28, 2023 at 07:00 AM
Two men entered the Republican Town Caucus at Edmond Town Hall on July 25 with hopes of being chosen the party’s candidate for first selectman. And after all the GOP ballots were counted, it was current Legislative Council Chairman Jeff Capeci who ca...
Published: Jul 28, 2023 at 07:00 AM
Approximately 45 Democrats gathered to endorse a slate of candidates for local offices at Edmond Town Hall on July 24, with the ticket to be led by Dan Cruson as First Selectman and Michelle Embree Ku as his running mate for Board of Selectmen.
Thoug...
Published: Jul 28, 2023 at 07:00 AM
A huge thank you this week to Shane McCarthy, who immediately recognized last week’s Way We Were photo. The photo showed Newtown Boy Scout Troop 270. Many members are holding American flags, which should have clued us in to when and why the photo was...
Published: Jul 27, 2023 at 04:30 PM
To the Editor:
Volunteers for the local unit of the Salvation Army were out during the day on Saturday, July 22 to ring the bells around town to raise funds to help Newtown.
The efforts raised $1,100.
This special “Christmas in July” collection was d...
Published: Jul 27, 2023 at 04:25 PM
To the Editor:
Below are recent comments from various sources on the climate crisis that I believe support the “Inconvenient Truth” Al Gore warned us about years ago.
One — This summer — even with extraordinary heat — is likely to be one of the coole...
Published: Jul 27, 2023 at 04:25 PM
To the Editor:
I want to extend my heartfelt gratitude for the tremendous honor of being nominated as the candidate for the office of First Selectman of Newtown at the Republican Caucus last Tuesday evening.
I am deeply grateful for the trust and con...