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Nighthawk girls beat Bethel at home and NHS boys win at Bethel in South-West Conference Tournament quarterfinals.

The following letter to Newtown High School Students has been received for publication by The Newtown Bee: To the Students of Newtown High, This letter is for you. Regardless of the outcome of this book challenge, and the other challenges that will c...

To the Editor: What an eventful day this past Tuesday was! Let’s discuss the rally and the Board of Ed meeting this past week. The topic at hand? Book bans. For those who did not attend the rally, we got to hear from law and educational professionals...

To the Editor: As the proud mom of a daughter who teaches 8th grade science in the public school I am pleased to see signs around town which proclaim “We Love Teachers.” I started to wonder if, as a country, we took that love and turned it into actio...

To the Editor: Respectfully, we “ban” books all the time at libraries. Does any school in town have a copy of Mein Kampf (sic)? Do the schools have The Bible or the Koran? Do any of them have Dwight Eisenhower’s At Ease. Do they all get a subscriptio...

To the Editor: There has been a lot of commentary recently that specifically calls out the individual Board of Education members. Newtown has continued to be a place I am proud to live, due in a large part to the people who dedicate their time to mak...

To the Editor: The Newtown Board of Selectmen’s Town Administrator Working Group has been meeting to evaluate whether alternatives to Newtown’s BOS structure “would enhance the management, oversight and continuity of town government.” In other words,...

To the Editor: I wish to respectfully respond to my friend, James Gaston’s observations on my recent Letter to the Editor in The Bee. As is typical of our long-standing working relationship in connection with issues concerning Newtown, we agree more ...

To the Editor: I am very disappointed in the three Republican members of our Board of Education who were present at the 5/16 meeting. By voting to remove books from the NHS library, they have shown that they are more interested in the voices of a few...

The following letter has been received for publication in The Newtown Bee: Dear Citizens of Newtown: On April 13 I was driving on Route 25 toward Monroe when I was approached by a police [SUV] in my lane that was responding to an emergency call...