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Published: Dec 09, 2022 at 07:00 AM
Readers have many options to reflect on the events of 12/14 and the aftermath of the past decade. As the tenth anniversary of that day approaches, many local organizations have shared their plans to help honor those who died and offer places and time...
Published: Dec 09, 2022 at 07:00 AM
(Editor's Note: This is an expanded version of a story originally published December 7, 2022.)
Robert Hoagland, a Sandy Hook resident who had been missing since July 2013, has been found, deceased, in New York. The announcement was made Wednesda...
Published: Dec 09, 2022 at 07:00 AM
With work on a new strategic plan for Newtown Public Schools underway, Superintendent of Schools Chris Melillo offered an update at the Board of Education’s Tuesday, December 6 meeting.
Melillo also shared a “public service announcement” during the S...
Updated: Dec 10, 2022 at 09:12 AM
Kelley Johnson’s first soccer-playing experience was with the boys. No cleats — or respect. That was back in the middle 1970s only a few years after Title IX was established and when Newtown was still a few years away from offering girls’ soccer team...
Updated: Dec 28, 2022 at 10:47 AM
Drawing a large crowd on a chilly-but-not-too-chilly Sunday, December 4, the 37th Newtown Holiday Festival offered vendors, Santa, Mrs Claus, holiday cheer, and more to benefit Newtown Youth and Family Services.
Newtown Youth and Family Services Exec...
Updated: Dec 15, 2022 at 09:18 AM
Occupation: I work at the Newtown Senior Center, and I am a Senior Services Assistant. I work the front desk, and I am the first face they see every day! I get to meet and talk to all of the seniors at the center and meet all of the great speaker...
Updated: Dec 12, 2022 at 03:08 PM
As we move into and through next week, marking ten years since Newtown experienced the fatal shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School, the nearly 30,000 members of our community continue to also reckon individually with what happened, the ways they ...
Published: Dec 08, 2022 at 03:52 PM
To the Editor:
I was pleased to see that The Newtown Bee printed my letter of last week, “Concerns About Letters,” without making any changes or edits. I do hope this bodes well for the future, considering that, as I stated in my Addendum to that let...
Updated: Dec 08, 2022 at 03:52 PM
To the Editor:
“December 7th, 1941 ... the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked ...” These of course, the words of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in asking Congress for a declaration of war against the Empire of Japan.
As I refl...
Published: Dec 08, 2022 at 03:47 PM
To the Editor:
The Friends of the C.H. Booth Library would like to thank everyone involved in making our 2022 Holiday Sale a huge success: the C.H. Booth Library for hosting, the customers who battled the blustery weather to shop at the boutique, and...
