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Wholistic Parenting Reaffirms Parenting Skills By Nancy K. Crevier “Parents can get into a ‘dance’ with their children and repeat it over and over. Power struggles can happen,” said Suzy DeYoung. In tea...

Budgetmakers Out Of Touch? To the Editor: I’m urging all Newtown voters to please get out and vote on April 22 for the town budget and the high school expansion project.  With today’s economy (recession and inflation) we hav...

Perched On A Terrible Divide To the Editor: Letters to The Bee supporting the new budget and the school expansion have persuaded me to vote against them. The gentleman who promises that my property values will go up when the world discovers that we a...

A Crucial Yes Vote To the Editor: The Head O’ Meadow School PTA (290 members strong) is proud to support both the town and school budgets as well as the proposed high school expansion. Along with the other Newtown Parent Teacher Associati...

How many of you have seen that bumper sticker that says something to the effect of “It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need and the military has to hold a bake sale to pay for one of its bombers”? ...

Ann Lee Faye Miles Longtime Harvey Hubbell Employee Ann Lee Faye Miles, 74, of Bethel and previously of Newtown, died April 12 in Danbury Hospital. Mrs Miles was the wife of the late Victor L. Miles. She was born in Bristol, Tenn., August 12, 19...

Dr Fong Cited By CDC The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recognized Connecticut and two local physicians, one from Newtown, as Immunization Champions for helping to achieve the third highest childhood immunization coverage rate in t...

Two Violent Incidents Reported  At State Prison  State police report two violent incidents at Garner Correctional Institution, the state’s high-security prison at 50 Nunnawauk Road. State police were called to the prison at 1:45 pm on ...

What Price Education? Trying to assess value in a town where life, on the whole, is pretty good, is an exercise in counting riches. Imagine if we were to put the whole town on the block in one giant tag sale and had to come up with a price for e...