It was many years ago, but contralto singer-songwriter Sloan Wainwright and Newtown musician Cadence Carroll both have similar memories of how they met. Music fans may recognize Sloan Wainwright as pa...

Sandy Hook resident and singer-songwriter Darryl Gregory will be performing at Trinity Episcopal Church at their coffeehouse evening on Saturday, February 8, beginning at 7 pm. Donations will be accep...

HARTFORD — Last year Hartford’s TheaterWorks mounted a delightful production of Mark St Germain’s Becoming Dr Ruth, a one-woman dramatic monologue about how an orphaned Holocaust survivor became Ameri...

RIDGEFIELD — Once again Ridgefield Theater Barn is warming up the winter doldrums with a special festival of eight short plays that showcase a wide assortment of local talent and keep the audience lau...

NORWALK — A Newtown woman’s enormous lighthouse made from Twinkies ® , Ho Hos® and other Hostess snack cakes is the $750 second-place winner in the Festival of Lighthouses Contest at The Maritime...

Instagram users can contribute photos to The Newtown Bee’s main website page by using #viewfromnewtown in a photo’s description. Recent contributions have shown snowy images of Newtown, people ice fis...

Flagpole Radio Café will continue its sixth season with a performance by Sloan Wainwright on Saturday, February 8. The show will begin at 7 pm at Edmond Town Hall Theatre, 45 Main Street. Tickets are ...

The following workshops have been scheduled by HealingNewtown. Unless notes, workshops are presented in the classrooms on the lower level of Newtown Congregational Church, 14 West Street. Visit Healin...

Kidologie Gets Ready for Summer, a children’s fair for kids of all ages and their parents, will return to Reed Intermediate School on Sunday, March 16, from 11 am to 3 pm.  The 2nd Annual Kidologie Ge...