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Newtown Contracts NY Marketing Firm For Municipal Website Video Content By John Voket Visitors to the town’s municipal website — newtown-ct.gov — can now see a small icon bearing a theater ticket and the teaser, â...

Commentary— Demonizing Television Does Nothing To Help Parents By Suzy DeYoung After reading Donald Kaul’s commentary in last week’s Bee on the increase in television viewing among children and its detrimental effe...

Number Three Newtown Rates Number One With Local Officials By Nancy K. Crevier “I’m not surprised that we got that recognition,” said Newtown Police Chief Michael Kehoe when he learned that Connecticut Magazine had...

Lightning Falls In Semifinals The Newtown Lightning U13 girls’ travel soccer team was defeated 3-1 by Fairfield in the district playoff semifinals this past weekend. Newtown got off to a quick start as Megan Weber scored in the opening mo...

Lawmakers Cited For Environmental Work By John Voket All three members of Newtown’s state legislative contingent — Senate Minority Leader John McKinney and State Representatives Chris Lyddy and DebraLee Hovey — wer...

Bell Ringers Needed To Stand With Salvation Army Kettles The Newtown Service Unit of the Salvation Army has openings for bell ringers this holiday season. One hour time slots have been scheduled for Fridays, December 11 and 18, from 4 to 8 pm, at Ya...

Newtown’s Jennifer Willis Competes In Urbanathlon Newtown’s Jennifer Willis competed in the Men’sHealth Urbanathlon in Chicago, recently. She placed second in the Athena over 40 division, finishing the 12-mile cou...

Is Hip Or Knee Replacement Right For You? A free Lunch and Learn Program for the community titled “Total Hip and Knee Surgery: Is it Right for You” will be held Thursday, December 3, in the Lodge Room at Masonicare at Newtown...

Theater Review— Good News For Fans Of Ridgefield Theater Barn’s Polished Productions By Julie Stern RIDGEFIELD — 1971 was the year of the New Testament rock musical, the most famous being the Tim Rice-Andrew Lloyd ...

DUI Arrest— Five Youths Uninjured When Tiny Car Hits Tree By Andrew Gorosko Police said that the five teenagers who were involved in a one-vehicle accident on Castle Hill Road late on the night of Saturday, November 14, are very fortunat...