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Commentary— Let Us Be Grateful For 17 By Lorraine A. Hurley Yes, thanksgiving will never be the same after 2008. Imagine, 17 family members will be here to join each other on the most family-celebrated holiday of all. The joy, the challe...

Filling The Trucks To the Editor: I would like to once again thank the very generous residents of Newtown for coming out on a very cold Saturday to support the Fill the Fire Truck Food Drive. The donations were better than ever! We collected almost 1...

Free BP Screening The Ashlar of Newtown Nursing Department will sponsor a free blood pressure screening Tuesday, December 16, from 10 am to noon, in the Lockwood Lodge Wellness Center, 139 Toddy Hill Road. The screening will be conducted by a licens...

Share Your Big News Weddings, engagements, and other celebrations are news you want to share. Help us to help you share that news in a timely manner. Call The Newtown Bee at 426-3141 or stop by the office at 5 Church Hill Road for wedding and engagem...

South-West Conference Title Hopes Dashed In Rematch With Brookfield By Andy Hutchison STRATFORD — Only two weeks earlier, the Newtown High School football team got little indication of just how formidable of an opponent Brookfield could b...

Holiday Festival Returning On First Sunday In December The 2008 Newtown Holiday Festival will be held Sunday, December 7, from 11 am to 5 pm.  The entire festival this year will be situated on Main Street. The event will offer tours of four histor...

Consumer Considerations: Save A Few Bucks On Your Grocery Bill By Jerry Farrell, Jr No doubt about it, food prices have gone up, some sizes have shrunk, and we really do not know how soon or to what extent they will go back to the way they were. If ...

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.                               —Woodrow Wilson An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it....

The Town Food Pantry’s Double Bind Most of the transactions we encounter in our daily efforts to “make a living” are governed by the laws of supply and demand, which dictate that economic incentives to increase sup...