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Members of Newtown High School’s indoor track and field teams participated in the Ocean Breeze Invitational Holiday Festival in Staten Island, NY, on December 30. Several Nighthawks qualified for conference and state championship meets....Read Full Article

As with any new year, several new laws, or portions of laws, go into effect in Connecticut, on January 1. Among those going into effect on Friday will be one provision of An Act Concerning Excessive Use of Force (HB 7103): grants for body camera purchases. Newtown Police Department had an early stud...Read Full Article

For Newtown’s students 2015 was a year filled with accomplishments and celebrations for the school district. Multiple dramatic and musical productions and seasonal concerts showed off burgeoning talents; roughly 450 students graduated from Newtown High School, one day after 400 students moved up f...Read Full Article

For Newtown’s students 2015 was a year filled with accomplishments and celebrations for the school district. Multiple dramatic and musical productions and seasonal concerts showed off burgeoning talents; roughly 450 students graduated from Newtown High School, one day after 400 students moved up f...Read Full Article

Newtown’s public school buildings were the subject of many discussions at town board and commission meetings in 2015, with a new school building project underway, capital improvement plan discussions, and a report from a Facility and Enrollment Study Committee. As the year began bids for the con...Read Full Article

The Newtown Bee proudly announces there will be another First Baby Contest in January. The winning parents will be the ones who send the earliest birthdate (and time, if necessary, to break a tie) to The Newtown Bee by noon Tuesday, January 5. Parents must be Newtown residents, and will need to subm...Read Full Article

Residents and property owners know that when January and July come around each year it is time to face the obligation of paying local taxes. To ease the burden of having to physically appear at the Tax Collector’s Office at Newtown Municipal Center, alternative online and telephone payment methods...Read Full Article

Whether it was welcoming a newly elected crop of local officials, determining the fate of several well-worn town facilities, rewriting the local charter, embracing (or rejecting) economic development initiatives, mulling the scope and preferred site for a 12/14 memorial, or passing a local budget wi...Read Full Article

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Newtown High’s boys’ basketball team defeated visiting Staples of Westport 41-39 in the December 30 consolation game of the Wounded Warrior Project Tournament. Also on December 30, the Newtown hockey team skated to a 4-1 win over Joel Barlow of Redding, at Danbury Ice Arena. After suffering a pa...Read Full Article

We are a family in Sandy Hook. You may or may not have met Daniel. He just turned 18 years old. Daniel was born with a rare brain deformity. In the early years, when I had to leave my career, and my children were small, we had a seemingly endless support structure. As years progressed, support has...Read Full Article

Paula Renee Wilk, a Danbury resident for the past 15 years and formerly of Nyack, N.Y., died December 28, in Masonicare at Newtown. She was born in Garfield, N.J., the daughter of Helen (Boyko) and Paul Wilk. ...Read Full Article

A former Newtown resident who was wrongly imprisoned on sex crime convictions stemming from a 2001 incident at C.H. Booth Library has received a $170,000 award from the state to compensate him. In a December 21 legal decision on the wrongful incarceration of Michael Seri, State Claims Commissioner J...Read Full Article

Newtown High School’s wrestling team, led by 182-pound weight class champion Anthony Falbo, finished second among 69 teams in the Lowell Holiday Tournament, in Lowell, Mass, on December 28 and 29. Chelmsford was first with 211.5 points; Newtown was runner-up with 181 to narrowly edge third-place T...Read Full Article

In late April 2015, a town police department sergeant and a civilian dispatcher at the Newtown Emergency Communications Center, which dispatches police, fire, and ambulance calls, were arrested on federal felony drug trafficking charges, involving the manufacture and distribution of anabolic steroid...Read Full Article

In late April 2015, a town police department sergeant and a civilian dispatcher at the Newtown Emergency Communications Center, which dispatches police, fire, and ambulance calls, were arrested on federal felony drug trafficking charges, involving the manufacture and distribution of anabolic steroid...Read Full Article