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Updated: Jun 06, 2023 at 09:03 AM
A shift in traffic flow within the Rochambeau Bridge Reconstruction Project (RBRP) is scheduled for Sunday night.
According to an announcement from the RBRP team, there will be a traffic shift at the Rochambeau Bridge — the dual span that carries I-8...
Published: Jun 03, 2023 at 07:00 AM
Three grants have been announced by Newtown Cultural Arts Commission, each to help local groups create or replace signage on public locations.
Paula Brinkman was awarded a grant to replace the current coroplast signs at the Doors of Newtown in Fairfi...
Updated: Jun 05, 2023 at 10:09 AM
Nighthawks blank Cheshire and will take on Fairfield Ludlowe with spot in championship game on the line.
Updated: Jun 05, 2023 at 01:09 PM
Book banning has slowly crept its way into school systems all across the country with Florida and Texas having raised national headlines over the past few years on the matter. That debate has slowly made its way to Connecticut, and to the meeting spa...
Updated: Jun 15, 2023 at 04:44 PM
June 5, 1998
Newtown residents got a taste of what life can be like in Kansas Sunday night when the area had a tornado scare. At around 9 pm, meteorologists began informing residents that the National Weather Service had issued a tornado warning...
Updated: Jun 02, 2023 at 01:47 PM
The Board of Education voted unanimously during a June 1 special meeting to keep the graphic novels Flamer and Blankets in circulation in the Newtown High School library. All remaining board members — three Democrats and two Republicans — reached con...
Updated: Jun 02, 2023 at 08:03 AM
The 37th Annual Law Enforcement Torch Run for Special Olympics Connecticut (SOCT) is underway, and Newtown is just a few hours out from receiving and carrying the torch.
Law enforcement personnel, joined in some towns by SOCT athletes, have been car...
Published: Jun 02, 2023 at 08:00 AM
Managing Editor Shannon Hicks received quite the email on Monday. “I was just home, having been away for the weekend, doing those post-travel chores — laundry, dinner prep, the usual,” she shared. “Then I turned on a rebroadcast of the National Memor...
Published: Jun 02, 2023 at 07:00 AM
A statement from Newtown Democratic Town Committee (DTC) leaders released to The Newtown Bee May 31 notes that they do not “condone the disruptions or insults” at a May 16 Board of Education meeting, and calls an accusation by the Republican Town Com...
Published: Jun 02, 2023 at 07:00 AM
Newtown High School’s boys’ volleyball team concluded the season with a trio of setbacks in mid May — 3-1 (25-17, 26-24, 19-25, 27-25) to Daniel Hand of Madison on May 17, and in a pair of road matches, 3-0 (25-20, 25-23, 25-21) on May 18, and 3-0 (2...
