Dozens of guests attended Newtown Underwater Search & Rescue’s (NUSAR) first annual open house on Saturday, April 27. Held on-site at NUSAR’s station, 28 Riverside Road in Sandy Hook, the event let residents meet the team and learn about their equipment and capabilities.

The Society of Creative Arts of Newtown has been prolific in recent months, hosting regular and special events for members and the public.

It took about four hours last Thursday morning to repair a nasty dent in the town’s landmark Main Street flagpole.

Newtown news of 25, 50, 75 100 and 125 years ago, from the archives of The Newtown Bee.

Newtown news and notes told from the point of view of a cat named Mountain.

The late Newtown resident Ray Sipherd will be memorialized this month when Brookfield Theatre hosts a pair of staged readings of "ROB," Sipherd's final play.

This week's Snapshot introduces readers to Christine Tisi.

The Newtown Rotary Club, alongside volunteers and the WCSU Rotaract Club, visited the pollinator trail at Fairfield Hills on Saturday, April 20 and refreshed it with pollinator plants.

Director Rob Ruggiero has brought the good old-fashioned musical comedy "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" to vibrant life on the Goodspeed stage.

First Selectman Jeff Capeci and Newtown Bee Copy Editor Kathy Ronan will hold a Sourdough 101 class on Saturday, May 4, at Newtown Community Center.