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To the Editor: I was saddened to read of Howard Lasher’s passing in The Newtown Bee last week. While I never met him, I was very impressed by his generosity and philanthropic support of several Newtown organizations as well as many worthy causes. His...

To the Editor: In my view, Dr Magnan in last week’s Newtown Bee Letter Hive blamed the culture of women who have abortions for the rash of shootings in the US. He wrote that, “None of these ‘walking time-bombs’ had ever received any mental/emotional ...

To the Editor: I had the displeasure of attending the Wharton 76 dock 348,000 sq ft Truck Terminal P& Z meeting on June 2, and was appalled at the treatment afforded the taxpayers of Newtown by the committee. I witnessed extremely deferential treatme...

To the Editor: Part II — In continuation of Jim Gaston’s letter . . . The Wharton attorney at the meeting on 5/19/22 interrupted the presentation of Azeez Bhavnagarwala, PhD, claiming that this highly qualified expert was not a traffic engineer and t...

To the Editor: As a frequent attendee of BOE meetings, and reader of “The Hive,” I’ve noted constant critiquing by some of Newtown’s students in regard to “supposed” racial insensitivity, “slurs,” and worse. This, they say, is proof of the need for D...

To the Editor: In 1983, development allowed us to buy and build on the last of eight lots, an interior, shared driveway location. No problem, good neighboring would work. Not so. For an entire six or seven years it was very problematic — very. A simp...

The following letter was received for publication on Memorial Day. To the Editor: Yesterday I visited one of the most impressive sites — it was the Newtown War Memorial on Main Street. It’s a very special monument that honors Americans who have ...

What is this world and our town coming to when discourse and decorum during a municipal meeting devolve into viciously hurled insults, accusations of ethical impropriety, and threats of doing physical harm to volunteer public servants and officials? ...

BROOKFIELD — Newtown Underwater Search And Rescue (NUSAR) was among the multiple first responder agencies involved in a search for a man who went missing in Candlewood Lake over Memorial Day weekend. His body has not been recovered. DEEP issued an up...

The Registrar of Voter’s office will be mailing postcards over the next two weeks informing voters where they will be voting for the 2022 primaries, and for the general election in November. Each of the four districts will be mailed with a different ...