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The Board of Selectman at its May 1 meeting approved a $60,000 appropriation of American Rescue Plan funding to be used to switch police sidearms from Glock .45 caliber pistols to Glock 9mm pistols. Selectman Ed Schierloh reported that the department...

Marian Burk Wood, a longtime member of Genealogy Club of Newtown (pictured), will be the featured speaker at the club’s May 10 meeting, to be conducted via Zoom. Her topic is “Researching Military Records and More on Fold3.” For people researching fa...

UPDATE (Monday, May 8, 2023): This article has been updated to reflect the correct year Bill Halstead was elected chief of Sandy Hook Volunteer Fire & Rescue Company. * * * * * Bill Halstead will be among those remembered this weekend during th...

After breaking a scoreless tie with a run in the fifth inning, only to see visiting Brookfield plate the tying run in the top of the sixth, Newtown High School’s baseball team got the bats going with a four spot in the bottom of the frame. Starting p...

Newtown High School's boys' track and field team hosted New Milford, New Fairfield, and Notre Dame-Fairfield at Blue & Gold Stadium on May 1, and the girls competed at New Milford against the same three teams on May 2. Top NHS results are as follows:...

Newtown High’s boys’ volleyball team went on the road and fell to Oxford 3-1 (25-14, 21-25, 26-24, 25-21) on April 26. The Nighthawks were led by sophomore middle hitter Warner Bacon (five kills, three total blocks, six digs, and an ace), junior outs...

The Newtown Forest Association’s (NFA) headquarters parking area at the Holcombe Hill Preserve, 55 Great Hill Road, was heavily damaged by vandals sometime on April 8. The damage was discovered on April 9 by the NFA caretaker. A large informational k...

To the Editor: In the past four weeks there has been a lot of attention given to our board as a group of parents attempt to ban books they have not even read. I would like to use this space to address Newtown Public School students belonging to the L...

To the Editor: I am deeply disturbed by the current campaign to remove LGBTQ books like Flamer (by Mike Curato), This Book Is Gay (by Juno Dawson) and All Boys Aren’t Blue by (by George M. Johnson) from the Newtown High School library. Despite the w...

To the Editor: I have not written a response to The Newtown Bee in a long time. My children are long out of the school system but I have to respond to the letter by a former coach in the April 14 edition. He had many years of coaching and stated it w...