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Published: Feb 08, 2023 at 08:00 AM
See Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4 of this story in the January 6, 13, 20, and 27 print edition, respectively, or at newtownbee.com.
After the tragic and incomprehensible events of December 14, 2012 (known in town as 12/14) that left 20 firs...
Published: Feb 08, 2023 at 08:00 AM
The Newtown High School English department held its school-wide Poetry Out Loud competition January 27, which was coordinated by English department faculty members Dr Michell Toby and Brian Tenney.
Poetry Out Loud is a nationwide poetry recitation co...
Published: Feb 08, 2023 at 08:00 AM
Occupation: I am a reference librarian, project coordinator, and administrative assistant at the C.H. Booth library. I’m also a full-time student at Emerson College finishing up my MFA in Creative Writing. I’ve got one semester left to go.
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Published: Feb 08, 2023 at 08:00 AM
Trisha Kevalis, assistant director of the Fairfield Region of Connecticut Audubon, brought a few special friends to Head O’ Meadow Elementary School kindergarten classes on January 11.
Among them were a toad, a box turtle, an Australian blue-tongued ...
Published: Feb 08, 2023 at 07:00 AM
A team representing Newtown Public Schools achieved Highest Honors in the recent WordMasters Challenge.
The event is a national vocabulary competition involving nearly 125,000 students annually. The eighth grade team scored 170 points out of a possib...
Published: Feb 07, 2023 at 06:15 PM
John Anthony Craven, Jr, husband of the late Margaret Anne Craven (nee McGovern), has died three months shy of his 90th birthday, at his home in Southbury, Conn., surrounded by family. John was born April 15, 1933, in Flushing, N.Y. He was the only c...
Updated: Feb 07, 2023 at 09:08 AM
More than half a dozen wild eagles could be seen soaring through the sky at FirstLight’s Shepaug Bald Eagle Observatory in Southbury on the morning of Sunday, January 22.
But visitors did not need binoculars to get up close to a couple smaller and mo...
Updated: Feb 07, 2023 at 09:09 AM
Every member of the fifth grade chorus gathered to rehearse in the Reed Intermediate School cafetorium on January 18.
Leanna Hinger, Reed choral director, said the fifth grade chorus usually meets in smaller class groups.
“This is the first time our ...
Updated: Feb 07, 2023 at 08:17 AM
The First Selectman’s Office and the Fairfield Hills Authority are both considering EverWonder Children’s Museum bid to make Newtown Hall its new home inactive following a letter sent in December.
The children’s museum, which offers exhibits and exte...
Published: Feb 07, 2023 at 07:00 AM
The RSO Quartet, featuring the principal string players from Ridgefield Symphony Orchestra, will perform for the first time in Newtown on Saturday, March 11, at 7 pm, at Edmond Town Hall, 45 Main Street.
Violinists Jorge Avila and Mialtin Zhezha, vio...
