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Volunteer Management Training For Community Organizations  DANBURY — The Volunteer Center serving Western Connecticut, a member of the HandsOn Network and Points of Light Institute, will offer a Volunteer Management Training Series (VMT...

Welcome To The Real World To the Editor: As a second year college student I was appalled to read Ms Barrett’s letter about the change in the school calendar [Letter Hive, 3/13/09, “More Work, Fewer Breaks”]. Yes, t...

After School Programs At Hawley By Eliza Hallabeck Students in Hawley Elementary School’s gym after school on Tuesday, March 4, switched between aerobic exercises and nutrition games. “I think it’s a good opportuni...

The History Of A Community Bank To the Editor: In a day when large banks are failing due to mismanagement with subprime mortgages and questionable operating practices, it is indeed pleasant to have a bank in Newtown that has avoided all of that, rem...

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...

Pizza & Pasta In A Place That Feels Like Family The menu at Franco’s Pizza & Pasta in Sand Hill Plaza is far more extensive than pizza and pasta. The menu for the 35-seat restaurant includes chicken and seafood entrees, baked dishes...

The Party Is Over To The Editor: I’d like to thank Karolyn Baumgarten for her letter of March 13 [Letter Hive, “The Value Of A Good School System”] as it perfectly illustrated the point I was trying make in my lett...

Going Green, But How Far? This was a very green week, with both St Patrick’s Day and the vernal equinox on the calendar. The combination of green carnations and green daffodil shoots pushing up through clods of earth rendered our hope for...

NHS Student Makes Front Cover Of Connecticut Journal Of Science Education By Eliza Hallabeck Last year, when CJ Spath was a junior writing a paper for his oceanography class with Newtown High School teacher Russ Weiss, he wanted to write about somet...