The Jesse Lewis Choose Love Movement, founded by Scarlett Lewis, mother of 6-year-old Sandy Hook School shooting victim, Jesse, is a social-emotional learning program. This February, the Movement laun...

Debate continues, three months after voters agreed that the Town of Newtown should “consider commercial proposals at the Fairfield Hills campus that include a housing component, provided that a housin...

In the recent movie News of the World, Civil War veteran and itinerant paper man Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd reads the news of the nation to Texas communities still smarting from the outcome of that w...

Since mid-October when we switched providers for our crossword — readers were happy to remind us they considered the puzzle up to that time to be on par with the New York Times crossword — we have bee...

Even as we embraced the hope the new year brings, particularly in regard to the novel coronavirus, the year began with a shocking attack by insurgents on our nation’s Capitol, January 6, as lawmakers ...

Newtown school children are back in the classroom this week — at least the youngest learners — and none too soon for those who are exasperated, wearing the hats of teachers, parents, and employees as ...

You have heard it before, “Every picture tells a story.” And what a story 2020 has to tell. We bring to you, in the pages of this issue, a number of photo packages made up of pictures taken by the sta...

We continue this year with the tradition begun by the late Newtown Bee Editor Paul Smith many years ago, that of printing the Christmas story, according to St Luke, in the issue closest to December 25...

The number of people currently working inside Bee Publishing Company’s office and printing facility has been reduced — temporarily, we hope — while Newtown and the world continue to contend with the c...

In our preoccupation with surviving the novel coronavirus and its fallout, we seem to have forgotten what we swore we would Never Forget: 12/14. Meanwhile, 26 families directly affected that December ...