Governor Ned Lamont has announced that he has directed Connecticut’s Severe Cold Weather Protocol activated as of noon on Monday, March 1, remaining in effect through noon on Tuesday, March 2, 2021.
AARP Connecticut invites community organizations and local government agencies to apply for the 2021 Community Challenge grant program through April 14.
Newtown Health District Director Donna Culbert has a few important points for residents and those critical workers to remember as COVID vaccine eligibility expands March 1.
If you are the parent or primary caregiver of a Newtown child or teen, the Newtown Prevention Council, Newtown Parent Connection, and police department want to help educate you.
Read how one Newtown resident got some help connecting with his COVID-19 vaccine after reaching out to The Newtown Bee - and why he is not alone in leaning on his local paper for assistance.
Newtown and Connecticut are seeing positivity rates slowly diminishing with statewide rates over the past week trending in the mid to high three percent range, although health officials are cautiously...
So your counterpoint is that The Bee prints the same number of pages regardless of how much content appears in it. If that is true, then I stand corrected. I actually doubt that is the case.
Thank you for continuing to read my letters and bringing attention to them. As I said the last time you went through this tortured calculation, the Bee would be printing the same number of pages with or without my contributions. Why not spend your time writing a letter to the editor trumpeting all the great triumphs you think Trump has accomplished?
The Bee publishes about 3,800(1) copies each week. This is now the 24th installment of “Trump’s Triumphs,” and these pieces generally run about 9 to 11 column inches each. Given the Bee’s broadsheet page size of 16.75" by 22.75" — or roughly 136 column inches per full page — that means this series has consumed the equivalent of about 6,700 full broadsheet pages over 24 installments, or roughly 0.42 acres of paper surface.
If those pages were laid down end to end, sheet by sheet, they would stretch from the flagpole all the way to the transfer station — about 2.4 miles.
On the theme of Earth Day, it is worth remembering that at some point, it stops being civic discourse and starts looking like a remarkable waste of paper.
Source figures: 3,800 copies per week, approximately 10 column inches per installment, 136 column inches per full page, 7.35% of a page per installment, across 24 installments.
Excellent forum hosted by these young college students. They posed difficult but very important questions, especially about the increasing costs of living in Newtown; what qualifications and qualities Brandon Moore, the candidate for CT State Representative that appeared for the forum, brings; the candidate's ability to lead; and the ability to make difficult choices. Brandon Moore was impressive. He was on point and focused on improving the quality of life of Newtown residents. My husband and I were huge opponents to his candidacy, believing some of the things that have turned out to be untrue, but thankfully we asked a lot of questions and observed a lot behind the scenes, and Brandon Moore is a solid, knowledgeable, honest and strong candidate.
