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Published: Mar 04, 2022 at 07:35 AM
Registration is open for the spring Babe Ruth baseball season. There are Tee-ball and Rookie ball teams for boys and girls ages 3 and a half to 6. Minors, Majors, and Babe Ruth for children 7 to 15.
Registration closes on April 1 with the season sta...
Published: Mar 04, 2022 at 07:30 AM
After the first initial meeting, the Newtown High School DEep dIve book discussion group is set to host the author Arshay Cooper of its first read, A Most Beautiful Thing: The True Story of America’s First All-Black High School Rowing Team, for a vir...
Published: Mar 04, 2022 at 07:30 AM
Free throws can make or break things for basketball teams and that was certainly the case in the Class LL State Tournament opener for the No. 9 Newtown High and No. 24 Manchester girls’ teams when they met in Newtown on February 28. In a battle of Ha...
Published: Mar 04, 2022 at 07:00 AM
The Board of Education voted at its March 1 meeting to approve the 2022-23 school calendar, with December 14 to be a day off for Newtown Public School students and a professional development day for educators.
That date this December marks ten years ...
Published: Mar 04, 2022 at 07:00 AM
While the recently recommended municipal budget request equates to an 8% spending increase, that spending largely represents money being transferred into the town’s Capital and Non-Recurring Fund. The actual tax increase residents may be facing if th...
Published: Mar 03, 2022 at 04:40 PM
To the Editor:
Last night (March 1), the Chair of the Board of Education suggested that she is not prohibiting clapping at Board of Education meetings.
While on January 4 she said, "Therefore, there will be no more clapping or any other form, public ...
Published: Mar 03, 2022 at 04:35 PM
To the Editor:
Too often, cost-driven health insurers treat patients like numbers on a ledger. We all know someone who was given a prognosis based on a statistic, rather than really knowing the person. That “just a number” culture grows exponentially...
Published: Mar 03, 2022 at 04:30 PM
To the Editor and Our Community:
Two weeks ago, an editorial in The Newtown Bee, and last week a letter to the editor by Paul Bluestein, focused on MAID (Medical Assistance in Dying) legislation.
My friends, Lynda Shannon Bluestein, who has late-stag...
Published: Mar 03, 2022 at 04:25 PM
To the Editor,
In the real-world lives of our children and community, I think Boards of Ed are now more important than the President, Congress, Supreme Court, or any other institution.
The pandemic of the past two years necessitated parents becoming ...
Published: Mar 03, 2022 at 04:20 PM
To the Editor:
On March 17, people around the world will come together to celebrate the Irish holiday of St Patrick’s Day.
It’s always a good time to wear your green attire and partake in local festivities with friends and enjoy a cold beer. That’s w...
