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To the Editor: While debate continues over adjusting our gun control and mental health laws, I urge our communities to consider upgrading school security to much higher standards. My career focus was the handling of large sums of physical money gener...

To the Editor: America is blessed to be free — we enjoy security because of our Constitution, police and military. Free speech is our indispensable bedrock value. Without it any group can make criticism a criminal offense. Americans enjoy an open exc...

To the Editor: If you attended the June 2nd P&Z meeting you probably walked away with some of the same additional questions that I have: 1. In the P&Z minutes of May 5th, which are published on the Newtown government website, Wharton Capital presente...

To the Editor: Greetings fellow Newtown Veterans. Please be sure that your DD214 is on file at our Town Clerk’s Office. This is important for a variety of reasons. First, if you ever need a notarized copy, they can do one immediately. Second, when a ...

To the Editor: Google Norman Rockwell’s “Freedom of Speech” oil painting, one of the “Four Freedoms” paintings inspired by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1941. Study this famous painting of a lone dissenter to a town selectman’s announced plans. ...

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...