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Updated: May 12, 2022 at 09:46 AM
Newtown Youth & Family Services (NYFS) postponed its 2022 Independent Living Day ahead of last weekend’s expected weather. Openings are still available for the new date — Saturday, May 14 — when crews help the residents of Nunnawauk Meadows with spri...
Updated: May 12, 2022 at 09:09 AM
Newtown Congregational Church is planning a tag sale to benefit charitable organizations.
Nonprofits and sellers who will donate their proceeds to a charitable organization of their choice are invited to sell items (old or new), sell event tickets, i...
Updated: May 12, 2022 at 08:15 AM
With a public hearing on a controversial warehouse hearing extending into a second session May 5 — and set to reconvene May 19 at Edmond Town Hall at 7 pm — attendees and officials continued to hear two radically different visions of what impact the ...
Published: May 11, 2022 at 08:50 AM
James Edward Knapp Jr, 65, of Sandy Hook, was tragically killed on Saturday, May 7, 2022. A lifelong resident of Newtown, James was the devoted husband of Gabriela Sarmiento-Knapp, whom he married in 2013.
In addition to Gabriela, James is survived b...
Updated: May 11, 2022 at 08:31 AM
Each week we compile a list of some of the most-read stories published at newtownbee.com. Here is a roundup of the week’s top stories, based on the number of page reads.
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Published: May 11, 2022 at 08:00 AM
Occupation: I own an adult day center in town called Old Glory Days, and I’m in the process of opening a second location in Watertown that will be a small assisted living and day center.
Family: I live in Oxford with my boyfriend, Justin, my ...
Updated: May 12, 2022 at 08:17 AM
It was clear from the April 25 Community Conversation event at C.H. Booth Library that there is a desire for more.
For its second Community Conversations event, the library shifted the theme to “A Discussion of Religion and Race,” and over 40 people ...
Published: May 10, 2022 at 01:05 PM
Ruby L. Ryles-Martin was born on April 4, 1947, in Eufaula, Alabama, and departed this life on Sunday, May 8, 2022, with her devoted husband, Jules Martin, lovingly and dutifully by her side. She was the youngest of ten children born to the late Fren...
Published: May 10, 2022 at 08:00 AM
Margaret “Peggy” Lopes made a career out of helping some of Newtown’s youngest patients while working at several local pediatric practices. And after nearly a half-century of nursing, she is looking forward to a well-deserved retirement.
Lopes was bo...
Published: May 10, 2022 at 08:00 AM
Since Danbury Animal Welfare Society (DAWS) was founded in 1974, the organization has helped save the lives of more than 30,000 animals. On March 1, DAWS celebrated its shelter renovations with a groundbreaking ceremony and kicked off the next chapte...
