It is a great pleasure for me, as publisher of The Newtown Bee, to announce that the printing presses are once again in action, and that you, our readers, have our weekly town paper in your hands.

No one in the years of our existence could ever have believed that a virus would take down our country in such a manner and cause untold deaths and business shutdowns of a magnitude never experienced before. But, with perseverance, the country is starting to recover and we, too, have come back to continue once again publishing our newspaper.

We are hoping that all of our community will be supporting us as we go forward covering the news and events of our town.

R. Scudder Smith, Publisher