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While we hoped to devote our Ink Drops this edition to highlighting things in our community we should be thankful for, The Newtown Bee is instead expressing solidarity with Newtown Action Alliance and Sandy Hook Promise — and the growing number of ag...

In moving part of his expanding real estate company to Newtown, Gaetano Marra, owner of Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate Gaetano Marra Homes, didn’t just choose any location. He chose 45 South Main Street, a location with 40-plus years of real es...

John “Jack” A. Grugle, most recently a resident of Church Hill Village, Newtown, Conn., peacefully passed away on November 21, 2022, at the age of 91. Jack was born on October 3, 1931, to Hildegarde and Albert (Barney) Grugle, and though he was chris...

Each week we compile a list of some of the recent most-read stories published at newtownbee.com. Here is a roundup of the week’s top stories, based on the number of page reads. Keep up with all the Newtown news by subscribing to the print edition, ma...

Occupation: I’m the manager, curator, and digital media director at New Insights Boutique, our family business at 111 Church Hill Road in Sandy Hook! I am also a professional visual artist working in acrylic paint, sculpture, and costume design. ...

This is the first of a four-part story to recap a virtual symposium conducted by Connecticut Invasive Plant Working Group on “Strategies for Managing Invasive Plants: Assess, Remove, Replace, and Restore.” Connecticut Invasive Plant Working Grou...

The Friends of the C.H. Booth Library have excitedly announced that the popular Holiday Sale is returning the first weekend in December after being on hiatus since 2019. Sale hours are from 9:30 am to 5 pm on Saturday, December 3, and from 11 am to 5...

Thirteen years ago, a then 15-year-old Chris Fulcher was living in Sandy Hook and told The Newtown Bee about his burgeoning career in photography. He discussed his beginnings as a teenager taking pictures of sporting events, including his paintball g...

C.H. Booth Library’s Newtown Nonprofit Council (NNC) had its monthly virtual meeting on November 15 with a fraction of its usual participants. Douglas Lord, director of the library, commented that it may be time to switch to in person, because the co...

Anne Marie Porco, age 90, passed away on Friday, November 18, 2022, at Midstate Medical Center with family by her side. She was the widow of her loving husband, Joseph S. Porco, who died in 1998. Anne Marie was born in Norwalk, Conn., in 1931, the da...