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Creativity was on full display, and on the move, during the Cub Scout Pack 270 Pinewood Derby, at Newtown Congregational Church, on February 25. Wooden cars — 59 of them — designed with customized paint jobs, were each raced four times during a morni...

Newtown High School’s dance team won the Large Jazz category and came in third in Hip Hop during the State Championships at Hamden High on February 25. The Jazz dance was choreographed by Head Coach Emily Marks. Hip hop was choreographed by Newtown’s...

Andrew Sanchez, a sophomore on the Newtown-New Fairfield hockey team, provided a bright spot with his first varsity goal in the Nighthawks’ 6-1 loss to a desperate Brookfield-Bethel-Danbury squad clawing to qualify for the playoffs, at Danbury Ice Ar...

“It’s really about the journey, the community — and the land is always changing,” newly appointed Land Use Director Rob Sibley said of his job and his department in an interview following his February 22 promotion. “We’re stewards for a portion of it...

NEW MILFORD — Sigmund Freud and C.S. Lewis walk into an office … sounds like the beginning of a joke, right? It’s the fictitious scenario dreamed up by playwright Mark St Germain for his long-running Off-Broadway hit Freud’s Last Session, the just-op...

S&P Global Ratings has reaffirmed Newtown’s credit rating as AAA, with a stable outlook. The town received a report from S&P recently, which lauded the town for its “well-embedded financial management practices.” S&P Global Ratings is an American cre...

BRIDGEPORT — Whenever the postseason run ends for Newtown High School’s boys’ basketball team, so too, will Coach Tim Tallcouch’s tenure with the squad. The Nighthawks’ leader told Newtown Bee this week that he informed Newtown High School admini...

Led by 170 pound weight class champion Fisher Stites, the Newtown High School wrestling team placed third among 92 teams in the State Open, at the Floyd Little Athletic Center in New Haven, February 24 and 25. Stites defeated Norwalk's Ryan Gilchrist...

The following letter has been received for publication: To the Editor: [On February 23] we received a phone call which was clearly a scam and verified as such by Spectrum. The caller said that “Spectrum and Comcast had joined” and was offering a...

To the Editor: I would like to thank everyone who takes the initiative to pick up trash along our town’s roadways, even though the trash is not your own. Road trash, including bottles, cans, food containers and more not only spoil our otherwise beaut...