Middle Gate Elementary School physical education teacher Laura Cooper retired at the end of this past school year after over four decades of working as an educator.
Kevin’s Community Center recently awarded $13,500 in scholarships to four Newtown High School seniors who will be pursuing studies in medical health care in college in the coming academic year.
The Board of Education discussed the upcoming full-day Kindergarten Readiness program that will be piloted for the 2024-25 school year at their Tuesday, June 18 meeting.
St Rose of Lima School preschooler, kindergartner, and eighth grade students graduated during three ceremonies at the school right at the end of the 2023-24 school year.
Author, artist, and educator Amy Guglielmo made a special surprise visit to Hawley Elementary School as a capstone to their "Hawley Loves to Read Week" on Friday, May 31.
Forty years ago, when I began a career in journalism in Connecticut, most towns had a reasonably well-staffed, thriving weekly newspaper. And the area had a substantial, award-winning daily paper.
Newtown is fortunate to have The Bee and should not take it for granted.
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The screenshots from NAFC's private group show prominent members of the organization naming businesses that hosted certain political signs ahead of the last election as these allies self-organized to crowdsource a running list of businesses not to patronize for the sin of supporting candidates such as [gasp] our incumbent State Rep who has a great record with small business associations - claiming that makes them unsafe. The NAFC official account was involved in moderating the discussion as they banned one "problematic" member for questioning the "witch hunt." This tacit threat to the livelihoods of local business owners has a chilling effect on free speech, yet the response from the organization was to claim that anyone who saw it as bullying was "stifling such conversations." If anyone is interested these screenshots are widely available.
Someone either does not understand how the state legislative process works, or is willfully misleading people to try to make the delegation look bad. I hope it is the former scenario.
