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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...

Gearing Up For ‘Grease’ The next big musical from Sabrina’s Encore Production LLC is Grease. There are 72 students in the cast, consisting of seventh grade through college age students. Grease will be performed...

Collecting Christmas Cards For St Jude’s Ranch By Eliza Hallabeck After her mother saw an announcement in a newspaper about St Jude’s Ranch, seventh grade Newtown Middle School student Charlotte Gray said she wanted to help. C...

Basketball Camp On January 19 Future Stars Basketball will hold a Martin Luther King Day mini-camp at the Newtown Youth Academy from 2-4:30 pm on Monday, January 19. The camp is for boys and girls in grades 3-8. Cost is $39. The camp will include sho...

Take An Active Role In The Development Of Fairfield Hills To the Editor: Transparency in Newtown government is often an elusive thing. A public hearing on January 20, at 7 pm, at the Senior Center in Sandy Hook, will be held to discuss the proposed ...

A State Tax Windfall To the Editor: The state should be fair when it comes to charging sales taxes on home oil delivery. Many people locked in their rates back in August when prices were around $4.20 to $4.50 a gallon, but now you can buy home heatin...

Richard C. Hensel Walsh Logging And Mulch Employee Richard C. Hensel, 45, of Southbury, died unexpectedly January 7. He was the husband of Kristen (Poklemba) Hensel. Mr Hensel was born November 24, 1963, in Danbury, son of Ruth Ann Hensel of New...

Nicer In Newtown To the Editor: I am sitting here at 5 am as a plow truck sands my local roads, and I am very thankful that I can leave for work knowing that my commute is made safer by the Newtown plow trucks. My sister-in-law lives just outside of ...

Goodbye To A Friend To the Editor: I was saddened by the news of death of “Joe the Barber” [Marino Pelino]. Newtown lost one of its greatest assets when “Joe” retired and now the world has lost a fine p...

By Bardi McLennan A Word to the Dog: What wonderful things have you been doing since this new year started? Nothing? Oh, that’s not good at all.  How about doing everything you know backwards? Wouldn’t that be fun? Thi...