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Published: Nov 21, 2024 at 03:00 PM
According to Wikipedia, Thanksgiving is a “celebration [that] dates to 1863 and has been linked to the Pilgrims 1621 harvest festival since the late 19th Century. As the name implies, the theme of the holiday generally revolves around giving thanks w...
Updated: Nov 25, 2024 at 10:43 AM
The Bee Publishing Company’s newspapers — The Newtown Bee, The Bee Extra and Antiques and The Arts Weekly — along with the annual Guide To Newtown have, after the closing of the company’s printing plant in 2021, been printed by Trumbull Printing in T...
Published: Nov 07, 2024 at 03:55 PM
First off, Election Day is behind us and The Newtown Bee extends its congratulations to its local state contingent of Representative Mitch Bolinsky, Representative Marty Foncello, and Senator Tony Hwang on their respective re-elections. The staff of ...
Published: Oct 31, 2024 at 03:06 PM
With early voting being a thing that a large amount of Newtown residents have been taking advantage of, it almost seems a bit like The Bee’s annual pre-election editorial urging people to vote and covering the basics of the election are a bit less th...
Published: Oct 24, 2024 at 03:58 PM
“This is Halloween, this is Halloween,
Pumpkins scream in the dead of night,
This is Halloween, everybody make a scene,
Trick or treat ‘til the neighbors gonna die of fright.” — lyrics from “This Is Halloween,” from The Nightmare Before Christmas
Ha...
Published: Oct 17, 2024 at 03:00 PM
Most weeks we try to concentrate an editorial around one (or at most two) themes or topics, but occasionally an editorial is allowed to meander a bit and cover multiple topics, such as The Bee’s previous “Standing O’s and Oh No’s” and this week’s “Bi...
Published: Oct 10, 2024 at 03:00 PM
The 84th observance of National Newspaper Week continues to Saturday. “Telling Our Stories” is the theme of this year’s event, October 6 to 12.
Each person who calls the long familiar red building at 5 Church Hill Road their work home has a reason fo...
Published: Oct 03, 2024 at 03:00 PM
Thanks to the Town’s Department of Economic and Community Development (DECD), the Fairfield Hills Campus as well as the Friends of Newtown Seniors (FONS) Senior Rides program have been selected as featured stops on the AgeWell Across Connecticut tour...
Published: Sep 26, 2024 at 03:00 PM
On Wednesday, the chairmen of both the Republican Town Committee and the Democratic Town Committee released a joint statement regarding vandalized and stolen political signs.
From both NDTC Chair Alex Villamil and NRTC Chair Phil Carroll, it states:
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Published: Sep 19, 2024 at 02:53 PM
As a recognized Connecticut Civically Engaged Organization (CEO), The Newtown Bee is committed to presenting fair, balanced, responsible, engaging, and non-confrontational content we hope will inform residents and spur them to register to vote if the...