Naugatuck Historical Society invites the community to dust off their bell bottoms and relive the golden era of rock and folk with “Night at the Museum — 70’s Music Tribute,” an evening of live acoustic guitar and vocals by local favorite Terry Johansen.
Newtown Historical Society has a pair of events planned for Saturday, April 12, with one taking place at its headquarters and the other in an equally historic building within eyesight.
Children ages 3-8 are invited to attend an egg hunt planned for Saturday, April 5, at Newtown United Methodist Church. The church and Wesley Learning Center are co-hosting the offering.
In conjunction with recent lessons about The Good Samaritan, the children and families of Christ the King Lutheran Church are conducting a donation drive to benefit Newtown Animal Shelter.
Podcaster and Newtown resident Cat DaRocha will speak about “Rewriting the Playbook: Celebrating Women’s Voices in History and Today” during the next Justice Southbury Speaker Series program
The Society of Creative Arts of Newtown will host one of its own this month, when Randy Carboni demonstrates his watercolor and ink approach to creating art.
Rehearsals are well underway for the Town Players of Newtown season opener. Meanwhile, another cast is able to be assembled through the next round of auditions for the local company's second production of the 2025 season.
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.
