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Published: Dec 29, 2023 at 03:06 PM
Johanna W. Metzker, 84, passed away peacefully on Wednesday, December 27, at Danbury Hospital surrounded by her loved ones.
Johanna was born July 24, 1939, in Danbury, the daughter of the late Walter J. Sr and Ada (Tulipani) Walker.
Jo, as she was kn...
Published: Dec 29, 2023 at 08:00 AM
I’m going to open this week with a Good Egg Award. I realize I offered one last week, but as we close out 2023 I’d like to offer one final thanks to our subscribers, advertisers, and all of the readers who purchase this newspaper at newsstands or off...
Updated: Dec 29, 2023 at 08:49 AM
As the year comes to a close, The Newtown Bee is looking back on some of the biggest stories in town for 2023. It has been an incredibly eventful year, both in town and even here at The Bee, and here we’ll take a jaunt through some of the highlights ...
Updated: Jan 01, 2024 at 01:11 PM
It was a true team effort when Newtown High School’s wrestlers traveled to the Tsongas Center in Lowell, Mass. December 22-23 and became the first Connecticut school to win the George Bossi Holiday Tournament in the more than five-decade history of t...
Published: Dec 29, 2023 at 06:55 AM
The third time was the charm. Newtown High School’s boys’ basketball team, after battling back from big deficits to challenge Wilton and Staples of Westport only to come up short, got the job done. Newtown erased a 30-16 deficit after one quarter of ...
Published: Dec 29, 2023 at 06:50 AM
A 5-0 start to the season, especially with several challenging nonconference foes as part of that group of games, is about all the Newtown High School girls’ basketball team could have hoped for.
Or is it?
While Coach Jeremy O’Connell and the Nightha...
Published: Dec 28, 2023 at 05:25 PM
To the Editor:
It was so good to see so many people in attendance for this year’s memorial celebration of the horrible event that took place at Sandy Hook School, 11 years ago. Newtown can be proud of its Interfaith Council that brings us together, e...
Published: Dec 28, 2023 at 05:20 PM
To the Editor:
For more than 50 Borough residents attending a recent public hearing (December 13) by Inland-Wetlands Commission to consider Castle Hill Real Estate’s cluster development proposal, the evening proved informative but also frustrating.
W...
Published: Dec 28, 2023 at 05:15 PM
To the Editor:
On behalf of Newtown Youth and Family Services and our Holiday Festival Committee, we would like to thank the community of Newtown for supporting the 38th Annual Holiday Festival. Weather was a bit of a challenge but the turnout for th...
Published: Dec 28, 2023 at 03:00 PM
As we are wrapping up our coverage of 2023, one cannot help but think forward to the New Year and what lies beyond. There are a number of threads left from 2023 that will see continued work or possibly resolution as 2024 becomes the present instead o...
