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School Board Winds Up Its Summer Meeting Schedule By Eliza Hallabeck The next regularly scheduled meeting for the Board of Education will be on September 1, the day before school starts. Concluding its summer work on August 11, the school board appro...

Environmental Advocacy Team Is ‘Alarmed’ At Railroad Operations By Kendra Bobowick On paper and in person Ann Marie Mitchell refreshed her appeal to officials to regularly visit, document, and, if possible, temporarily stop wo...

Controlling Spending At Fairfield Hills To the Editor: The town charter clearly defines the procedures for approving town expenditures, and it includes the participation of the Board of Finance (BOF), the Legislative Council (LC), and the voters. T...

Parade Day Marching Forward Rapidly By Nancy K. Crevier It is just over three weeks to go, and everything except for the funding is falling neatly into place for the 48th Newtown Labor Day Parade, said Parade Committee President Beth Caldwell. With t...

Playing By 1800s Rules — Sluggers Go Back In Time With Vintage Team By Andy Hutchison Imagine a baseball game in which an out can be made by catching the ball on a bounce — bare-handed, of course, since the fielders do not wea...

Earl H. Matthews Loving Father Figure Earl Henry Matthews, 79, of Sandy Hook, died August 6, at Castle Point (N.Y.) Veterans Hospital. He was a loving father figure to Louis Romano and wife, Denise, and their two children of Sandy Hook. He is surviv...

Town Grants Railroad Time Extension To Submit Wetlands Data By Andrew Gorosko The town has granted the Housatonic Railroad Company a requested time extension to submit technical information on the steps the railroad would take to environmentally prot...

Karate Kids ... Porco’s Students Demonstrate Their Skills Porco’s Karate Academy hold its testing event recently. Participants include students from Porco’s studios in Sandy Hook and Southbury. The students, who ha...

Are Better Than Bailouts The following letter to Congressman Christopher Murphy has been received for publication Dear Congressman Murphy: Thank you for your reply July 15, 2009, to my letter of concern. A similar letter went to Senators Dodd an...

Share Newtown’s history with Newtown old-timers and newcomers alike by passing on photos of interest to The Newtown Bee. The Bee welcomes submissions of photos for “The Way We Were.” Photos can be submitted via ema...