Log In

One Scout’s Garden Beautifies, Buffers The Lake By Kendra Bobowick Cone flowers, black-eyed-Susans, sedum, grasses, coreopsis, and piled stones all filled a wood-mulched garden on a rise overlooking the Lake Lillinonah boat launch. As Sa...

Cash for Congressional Cash Guzzlers To the Editor: If you are one of the few voters who is dissatisfied with your Congressional Cash Guzzler, then I have a new program to suggest — Cash For Congressional Cash Guzzlers. Get a rebate for ...

Newtown 9s Claim State Crown! Newtown’s 9-year-old baseball team won the state tournament this past Saturday morning with a 12-2 win over West Norwalk in the championship game. Newtown earned the triumph in a four-inning run-rule effort. ...

Newtown Organic Horticulturist Tells Clients To ‘Go Native’ By John Voket If you own a Honda automobile, maybe you are wondering why Starlet Braden looks familiar. This Newtowner, who in 2007 launched Roots to Shoots, an organ...

A New View Emerges After Building Demolition By Kendra Bobowick Bridgeport Hall’s cupolas jut above the distant tree line, piercing the sky above a gentle horizon. The rooftop decorations on the one-story building also reach higher than t...

Lightning Baseball Results Newtown Lightning U15 baseball team summer league game highlights from this past week are as follows: Playoffs Pomperaug 9, Newtown Lightning 5: Tied 4-4 after three innings in a game suspended by rain Sunday at Fa...

State Budget Could Reduce Health District Reimbursement By John Voket Health District Director Donna Culbert has been following the gyrations over a proposed state budget very closely this year, because the final outcome will likely affect her abili...

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...

Civil War Reenactment Planned WOODBURY — The Second Connecticut Volunteer Heavy Artillery Reenactment group will be hosting their second Civil War event in historic Woodbury over the weekend of Saturday and Sunday, August 15-16. The event...

Local Residents Earn Scholarships The State University of New York at Oswego has awarded merit scholarships to more than 700 incoming students, including local residents who received $27,560 in Residential Scholarships. The students who were awarded ...