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Spring has sprung. Faces turn eagerly toward the sun, hoping for just a few minutes of warmth to burn through the winter haze. Crocuses are appearing. A few weeks ago a lone yellow one poked out from dead leaves and other natural debris that has prot...

Polls will be open from 6 am to 8 pm Tuesday, April 22, at Newtown Middle School, so voters can decide the fate of the proposed 2025-26 municipal and education budgets. As is usual, The Newtown Bee is urging all eligible voters to go out and cast the...

The date of this week’s print edition coincides with the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere’s famous ride. The Boston silversmith — and perhaps the first person to practice forensic dentistry, a topic for another column — led the night-time ride to war...

Budgets are tight. Many people are having difficulties making ends meet. Everyone who decides to vote on April 22 will have some difficult decisions to make. But one thing to note are the not one, not two, not three, but five separate questions regar...

Cell phones have not only become an ubiquitous part of daily life, they have become almost an extension of the average person’s arm, rarely leaving their hand or their eyesight. This has unfortunately been extending to even time behind the wheel. Acc...

A new phone system was recently installed at The Newtown Bee office and we’re still working some of the kinks out. If you should call in to the Bee and find yourself disconnected, dropped, waiting interminably, or otherwise inconvenienced, we apologi...

The Newtown Bee’s website, newtownbee.com, is celebrating its 30th anniversary this month. Launched in March of 1995, with an editorial in the Friday, March 17 issue of the print paper, then-editor Curtiss Clark described the launch thusly in a May 1...

Faced with, as Board of Finance Vice-Chairman Jim Gaston dubbed it, “an almost perfect storm” of a budget year, the finance board cut $1,071,806 from the proposed town budget and $900,000 from the proposed school budget at its final budget meeting fo...

With the fates of three potentially impactful subdivisions decided — 2-4-6-8 Riverside Road in late November 2024, and 20-60 Castle Hill Road and Vessel Technology’s affordable housing plan at 4 Berkshire Road and 22 Oakview Road in February — the to...

March is coming up and it’s always a busy month as we transition from the cold winter months into spring blooming on our way to the warm summer months. They say March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb, but the weather services are current...