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TOPS Offers Back-To-School Healthy Lunch Tips MILWAUKEE, WIS. — Before the school bells start ringing again, parents can consider nutritious lunches to pack for their children. The following “School Rulesâ€&#...

Senator’s Staff Reviews Railroad Waste Expansion Proposal By Andrew Gorosko A spokesman for US Senator Christopher Dodd said this week that the senator’s staff is working with town officials to show how under current federal ...

Rush To Judgment To the Editor: How alarming to read of David Shugarts’s “rush to judgment” at the meeting with the Board of Selectmen on July 29 in the Senior Center! [“Selectmen Hear About USDA Deer C...

The dispatchers at the emergency communications center at Town Hall South report the following fire calls: Thursday, July 30: 7:51 am, motor vehicle accident, I-84, Hawleyville responded; 2:55 pm, medical assist, 123 South Main Street, Hook & Lad...

Late Blight A Horror Show For Gardeners By Nancy K. Crevier Connecticut home and commercial tomato growers are fighting a potentially devastating disease this summer, in great part due to the excessive rain and below normal temperatures that have pla...

A Personal Sadness, A Community Kindness (The Bee has received the following open letter for publication.) Dear friends and neighbors: The death of our daughter Sharon is a personal sadness of the greatest depth and pain. Our spirits are buoyed...

Here it is, August, the dog days of summer. We have been spared the usual sultry days and nights so far, but the month is still young. Dog days were originally named for the Dog Star Sirius, which once appeared in the sky at sunrise during this time ...

Camp Rising Sun A Lifelong Experience By Nancy K. Crevier Nine-year-old Michaela Richmond is a vivacious, brown-eyed girl, with dark brown hair cut to brush just around her ears. Her smile is constant and her blushed cheeks belie that fact that in 20...

Newtown Support Groups Friday, August 7         AA, Newtown United Methodist Church, 92 Church Hill Road, 8 pm, beginners meeting, open discussion. Saturday, August 8       Daily Reflections meeting, St Rose School (Monsig...