If you are the parent or primary caregiver of a Newtown child or teen, the Newtown Prevention Council, Newtown Parent Connection, and police department want to help educate you.
Read how one Newtown resident got some help connecting with his COVID-19 vaccine after reaching out to The Newtown Bee - and why he is not alone in leaning on his local paper for assistance.
Newtown and Connecticut are seeing positivity rates slowly diminishing with statewide rates over the past week trending in the mid to high three percent range, although health officials are cautiously...
With more than half of Newtown’s residents over age 75 completing at least a first round of COVID-19 vaccinations, town officials are following the state’s lead by opening up pre-registration options ...
The Jesse Lewis Choose Love Movement has launched its 7th Annual Choose Love Awareness Month during February to promote hope, healing and connection through social and emotional learning.
Former Newtown resident and accomplished dancer turned physician assistant Mia Malin is finding a creative outlet in her art that helps relieve the stress and angst she experiences helping care for critical COVID-19 patients.
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.
