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Published: May 04, 2023 at 04:05 PM
To the Editor:
I have great respect for the former Chairs of the Board of Education and have worked with many of them either as a member of the Board or in other capacities in my volunteer work for Newtown. However, I am genuinely disappointed in the...
Updated: May 04, 2023 at 05:03 PM
To the Editor:
Four members of the seven member BOE appear poised to vote (a.k.a. “ban”) two books from the NHS library on May 16. Additional books have already been challenged and are likely to meet the same fate.
These four BOE members will go agai...
Published: May 04, 2023 at 03:00 PM
Even though your venerable Newtown Bee is a tiny speck of a cousin to America’s legacy newspapers, and even more distantly related to major broadcast and web-based news agencies, this week’s latest poll regarding America’s trust in the media still st...
Published: May 04, 2023 at 08:26 AM
The Land Use Department has been notified that Teton Capital Company, LLC, has withdrawn its applications for a 171-unit senior living community at 6 Commerce Drive.
In a letter sent May 2 from William Donohue Jr, managing partner of Teton, the compa...
Updated: May 04, 2023 at 08:33 AM
In an unprecedented effort, six former Newtown Board of Education leaders joined together backing a school district special review committee’s recent decision to deem two books appropriate for inclusion in the Newtown High School library.
Those books...
Updated: May 04, 2023 at 10:04 AM
During a district Special Review Committee April 20, Assistant Superintendent of Schools Anne Uberti reviewed the Procedures for Challenged Materials as described in the Board of Education Policies, splitting them into a series of steps detailed belo...
Published: May 04, 2023 at 06:00 AM
We hope readers continued to be inspired as we continued presenting The Newtown Bee’s ‘Why I LOVE Newtown’ Essay project middle school age runners-up in the April 21 edition.
The inspiration continues!
This week continues our showcasing of the remain...
Updated: May 03, 2023 at 10:56 AM
Nilla R. (Gullotta) Roberto, longtime resident of Monroe, passed away on Sunday, April 30, 2023. She was 84.
She was born in Stamford, the daughter of Pancrazio and Maria Gullotta. She graduated from Mother of God Academy. She was employed at Sacred ...
Published: May 02, 2023 at 07:00 AM
The Planning & Zoning Commission approved a definition for warehouse and distribution centers that will help the commission handle applications on those types of structures.
The newly approved definition for warehouse states it is a “building or buil...
Published: May 02, 2023 at 07:00 AM
The Society of Creative Arts of Newtown (SCAN) will present Richard Koleszar painting a landscape in oil on Wednesday, May 10, at 7:30 pm, at Newtown Meeting House, 31 Main Street (at the flagpole). The demonstration is open to the public and admissi...
