Those frequenting the Fairfield Hills Campus may have noticed some new additions on the property making the season's fall foliage even more colorful.The Newtown Bee's publisher Scudder Smith, is expec...

October 9, 1992 The prison open house scheduled for Saturday, October 10, is more than a one-time gesture. This month the State Department of Corrections distributed a "Good Neighbor" handbook to...

SHERMAN - The Sherman Playhouse has been transformed into a witch's lair, high up in the Smoky Mountains. Haunting and eerie, the set for this fall production of Howard Richardson and William Berney's...

The barn at the property of Yolie Moreno, who lives in western Newtown, was nearly teeming with people when "Beautiful Consequences" officially opened at 7 pm Saturday, September 30. The host location...

December 14, 2017 will mark five years without loved ones for families of children and educators killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School. The Newtown Bee will share remembrances of victims of 12/14...

It cannot go without saying how distressing the news of the October 1 shooting on the Las Vegas strip has been. Lives lost, lives damaged, trauma induced by another incident of gun violence in our cou...

Occupation: I am a dance teacher. My wonderful wife, Christina, and I are the directors of the Ashurst Academy of Irish Dance here in Newtown. We also have classes that run in Danbury and Southbur...

Decades before Newtown Police Department (NPD) K-9s Baro and Saint, there were at least five police dog names I found recently while scouring an old NPD scrapbook - Lion, Deacon, Lee, Bronson, and Tho...

September 22 may have marked the first day of autumn and baristas everywhere may be making pumpkin spice lattes at an alarming rate, but Newtown has not hit its peak for feeling like fall just yet.For...

Her shadow mingling with butterfly wings beneath a boiling late September sun, Scarlett Suba swung her net after fluttering insects. A step ahead of her was Mason Suba, with a small white moth already...