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Share Your Big News Weddings, engagements, and other celebrations are news you want to share. Help us to help you share that news in a timely manner. Call The Newtown Bee at 426-3141 or stop by the office at 5 Church Hill Road for wedding and engagem...

Out Town, Newtown To the Editor: I don’t know the Llodras, though I share their grief at the loss of their daughter Sharon [“A Personal Sadness, A Community Kindness,” Letter Hive, 8/7/09]. It was their letter to t...

Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.   —Willa Cather Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.     —Barbara Kingsolver It’s ...

Photos Sought For EDC Website As part of a community service project, Flagpole Photographers will assist the Newtown Economic Development Commission in designing a new website. In conjunction with Julia Nable, marketing strategist for SandorMax, desi...

P&Z Revises Rules on Special Permits, Commercial Signs By Andrew Gorosko The Planning and Zoning Commission (P&Z) has revised some of its zoning rules on the “special exception” review process through which land use applicants...

Broadway On Main Street To the Editor: We never realized, when moving to Newtown a year ago, that we would be surrounded by such theatrical talent. Such proved to be the case when we decided to spend a recent Saturday evening watching the performance...

Weir Farm Presenting Take Part In Art WILTON — On Saturdays in August and September, beginning August 15, Weir Farm National Historic Site’s popular Take Part in Art program will feature a professional artist who will provide ...

Enjoy A ‘Fresh Air’ Summer By Kendra Bobowick (Editor ’s note: To protect their privacy, several people are identified by first name only.)  “I was an only child, Tyler is an only child,â€...

It was a good week for Bee’s Buck players. Not only will we be sending out bucks to five people who called with the correct answer to last week’s challenge (inset), we’ll be sending 14 bonus bucks to one person and...

*Celebrating the release of her fourth studio album, KELLY CLARKSON will bring her fall tour to Connecticut on Friday, October 2. Tickets for the Mohegan Sun Arena show, which will include opening support from the Australian sister duo The Veronicas,...