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Updated: Jun 01, 2023 at 04:17 PM
To the Editor:
Last week’s Newtown Bee featured, front and center, an article giving the RTC’s take on the recent Board of Education meeting regarding the proposed book ban. In that article, RTC leaders expressed outrage at the public’s behavior at t...
Updated: Jun 01, 2023 at 04:19 PM
To the Editor:
As we leave a weekend of honoring service members who died while serving our country, I am compelled to reflect on the rights we have because of them. Specifically, the First Amendment of the US Constitution comes to mind because it ap...
Updated: Jun 01, 2023 at 04:27 PM
A little over a week ago, US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy affirmed what a growing number of officials, mental health and crisis intervention experts, law enforcement professionals, parents, grandparents, and caregivers have either suspected or thorou...
Updated: Jun 01, 2023 at 03:32 PM
Newtown High's softball team moved onto the next round with a shutout win, and two other Nighthawk teams were beaten in state playoff action.
Updated: Jun 01, 2023 at 11:42 AM
UPDATE: This report was modified at 8:15 am June 1 to clarify the school board members' letters of resignation were hand delivered to The Newtown Bee by those former officials, and to add statements from the RTC Chairman and another school board ...
Updated: May 31, 2023 at 12:41 PM
Down to their final couple of outs, Newtown High School’s baseball team came through in the clutch with a run to tie the game and force extra innings. Then came a two-out rally; single, walk, pinch-hit single. Ballgame.
The Nighthawks got a walk-off ...
Updated: May 31, 2023 at 12:40 PM
FAIRFIELD — It was on April 29 when Newtown High School’s boys’ lacrosse team lost to Fairfield Warde by a final score of 10-6. At the time, early-season injuries to key players, among other circumstances, led to the Nighthawks being unable to finish...
Updated: May 31, 2023 at 12:39 PM
Coming off winning the South-West Conference title, the postseason and winning ways continued for the Newtown High School girls' lacrosse team in the Class L State Tournament on May 30. Newtown entered as the sixth seed in the state bracket and hoste...
Published: May 31, 2023 at 09:00 AM
Janae Marks, author of middle-grade Nutmeg Award nominee From the Desk of Zoe Washington, visited Reed Intermediate School students to present “The Recipe to Becoming An Author” — and talk about her work.
The Fairfield resident compared writing to ba...
Published: May 31, 2023 at 07:00 AM
Newtown High School sophomore Marc Maurath started Newtown’s Kleats For Kids last year with the goal of collecting and donating 1,000 pairs of gently used cleats to under-resourced youth sports teams and community programs.
Last year, he collected 15...
