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Published: Jul 25, 2022 at 06:00 AM
The dispatchers at the Newtown Emergency Communications Center, at 191 South Main Street, report the following fire calls and the responders:
Wednesday, July 13: 9:32 am, service call, Berkshire Road, Hook & Ladder covered; 3:00 pm, water rescue,...
Updated: Jul 25, 2022 at 08:35 AM
The United States’ first nationwide three-digit mental health crisis hotline went live on Saturday, July 16. It is designed to be as easy to remember and use as 911, but instead of a dispatcher sending police, firefighters or paramedics, 988 will con...
Published: Jul 23, 2022 at 09:00 AM
At any moment on any given day, Newtown Health District Director Donna Culbert has a number of public health concerns on her radar.
And while the obscure and somewhat exotic specter of monkeypox is certainly one of them, she is assuring all her const...
Published: Jul 23, 2022 at 08:00 AM
Nearly 90 people responded to the latest weekly question offered via Facebook, where we asked readers to tell us the best ice cream flavor.
A new question is posted on The Newtown Bee’s Facebook page weekly. Readers are encouraged to check facebook.c...
Published: Jul 23, 2022 at 07:00 AM
A lot of folks have dreams of reaching new heights in a career — or climbing to the top at one’s job. Newtown’s Catherine Pendergast is taking these goals quite literally.
Pendergast, 20, found herself off the ground and most of the way up several 45...
Published: Jul 22, 2022 at 04:00 PM
July 18, 1997
A short-lived but intense summer storm swept through Newtown Tuesday evening, bringing fierce bursts of lightning that struck several houses, injured a workman, sparked brush fires, knocked down trees and wires, and “electrified” t...
Updated: Jul 28, 2022 at 12:58 PM
The Newtown community, and many from well outside the region, bid a final farewell to Sandy Hook Volunteer Fire & Rescue Chief and lifelong resident William “Bill” Halstead before he was laid to rest July 15, befittingly in a grave site just a brief ...
Published: Jul 22, 2022 at 07:45 AM
WASHINGTON — For the first time in the long history of Litchfield Jazz Festival, this year’s event will be presented in the new, state-of-the-art Tisch Family Auditorium in the Thomas S. Perakos Arts and Community Center at The Frederick Gunn School....
Published: Jul 22, 2022 at 07:00 AM
A Newtown resident has filed an application with the Planning & Zoning Commission asking members to consider a six month moratorium on the acceptance of applications concerning warehouses and distribution centers.
This makes Newtown one of the latest...
Published: Jul 22, 2022 at 07:00 AM
Calling 1960-64 Newtown High School grads! Members of the NHS Class of 1962 are working on planning the 60th class reunion for Saturday, September 17, at Rock Ridge Country Club. E-mail inquiries have been sent out to members of the 1960, 1961, 1963,...
