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Published: Mar 10, 2023 at 08:00 AM
Seats are still available for Newtown Woman’s Club’s annual Author Book Signing Luncheon, but time is running out to make a reservation. The club this year will welcome Newtown resident LaVerne Blackwell, who published “a short and easy to read memoi...
Published: Mar 10, 2023 at 08:00 AM
There’s a new addition to the Bee Family! For those who have noticed our Education Editor has been unavailable in recent weeks, now we can officially share the good news: Eliza Van and her husband Ky are celebrating the birth of a beautiful boy they’...
Updated: Mar 10, 2023 at 08:18 AM
Recent headlines about global insect declines and three billion fewer birds in North America are a bleak reality check about how ineffective current landscape designs have been at sustaining the plants and animals that sustain us.
To create landscape...
Published: Mar 10, 2023 at 07:00 AM
The Board of Finance, upon completing its review of the 2023-24 proposed budget, approved the municipal budget with no adjustments but made a $185,000 reduction to the school district’s proposed spending plan.
The $185,000, representing $25,000 for a...
Published: Mar 10, 2023 at 07:00 AM
Edmond Town Hall (ETH), the historic theater and movie house located at 45 Main Street in Newtown bid farewell to Sheila Torres, who served as Edmond Town Hall’s Operations Manager.
Torres was the face for Edmond Town Hall 10½ years. Her role include...
Published: Mar 10, 2023 at 07:00 AM
MONROE — Newtown High School’s boys’ swimming team made a nice splash in a competition against the best in the conference. The Nighthawks had a trio of individual/relay event champions and a record-setting performance at the South-West Conference Cha...
Updated: Mar 14, 2023 at 08:46 AM
UPDATE (Tuesday, March 14, 2023): This feature has been updated to include the names of all Garden Club of Newtown members who collaborated on the blue ribbon and top Club Competition Award-winning Horticultural entry.
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HARTFORD — Membe...
Published: Mar 10, 2023 at 06:50 AM
Newtown High School’s wrestling team had strong representation at the 57th Annual New England championships, held in Providence, R.I. March 3 and 4.
Fisher Stites, a junior in the 170 pound weight class, placed third, and Luca Manfredi, a senior at 1...
Updated: Mar 09, 2023 at 03:20 PM
Sunshine Week, March 12-18, provides an opportunity for your community newspaper and members of the Newtown community it serves to raise our collective voice for transparency — and even better access to public information than residents already have....
Published: Mar 09, 2023 at 08:50 AM
An Artful Life
Sara Elise Kuperman, 92, was called “Lila” from the day of her birth, June 4, 1931, in Santa Fe, Argentina. Her parents, Noah Kuperman and Sima Polansky Kuperman, were refugees from war-torn and pogrom-infested Eastern Europe. Lil...
