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Updated: Mar 27, 2023 at 08:22 AM
As a mourning cloak butterfly fluttered about harkening the arrival of spring inside Real Food CT’s newly constructed and huge new greenhouse, long-time wingman Dave Hazen moved around the otherwise quiet space watering the spinach, lettuce, and oth...
Published: Mar 25, 2023 at 06:50 AM
Newtown High School’s boys’ swimming team had excellent showings at both the Class L State Championships at the Cornerstone Aquatics Center in West Hartford on March 16 and the State Open Yale University in New Haven on March 18. There were a trio of...
Published: Mar 24, 2023 at 04:00 PM
March 27, 1998
HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER of Sarah Mannix
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A story on the front page of The Newtown Bee last week described a portrait of Henry Beers Glover scheduled to be sold March 22 at Skinner’s auction gallery in Bolton, Mass. The childho...
Updated: Mar 27, 2023 at 10:13 AM
As Women’s History Month continues, we’re making a little history at your hometown newspaper and hyperlocal media source. The Newtown Bee proudly announces the appointment of Helen Smith and her daughter, Sherri Smith Baggett, as the newspaper’s co-p...
Published: Mar 24, 2023 at 11:05 AM
Olive Carrie Lawlor, age 81, died on March 15, 2023, in Danbury Hospital due to complications of stroke.
Born February 7, 1942, in Norwalk Connecticut, she was the daughter of the late Flora and Oliver Smith. She was one of five siblings.
Olive was a...
Updated: Mar 24, 2023 at 10:45 AM
Spring has officially sprung! The crocuses (or “croci”) are beginning to break through the earth and bring their beauty for all to enjoy. Pollinators especially love this colorful flower, because it is one of its first sources of pollen for the year....
Updated: Mar 24, 2023 at 10:31 AM
Crews on the Exit 11 realignment project expect to make another temporary lane shift this week as the Exit 11 realignment project continues in the area of Wasserman Way, Berkshire Road and Toddy Hill Road.
The work is creating intersection improvemen...
Updated: Apr 05, 2023 at 04:39 PM
All five of Newtown’s fire companies and many mutual aid companies were called on during the afternoon of Sunday, March 19, when a large brush fire broke out in Sandy Hook.
It was the second time in as many weeks that a stubborn fire challenged local...
Published: Mar 24, 2023 at 07:00 AM
The Garden Club of Newtown will have its next meeting on Tuesday, March 28, at 1 pm, in the lower meeting room of C.H. Booth Library, 25 Main Street.
“Invasive Plants Among Us” will be presented by Barbara Thomas and Holly Kocet.
Barbara Thomas is an...
Published: Mar 24, 2023 at 07:00 AM
The bar continues to raise for wrestling in town as the Newtown Youth Wrestling Association dominated in the New England Championships held in Fitchburg, Mass. March 18 and 19. The Nighthawks captured the title for the second straight year. Newtown’s...
