Newtown High School’s baseball team, after winning a thrilling walk-off game in the second round of the Class LL state tournament, was held off by visiting Amity of Woodbridge in a 4-3 quarterfinal-round loss on June 1.
Newtown High School’s boys’ volleyball team defeated visiting East Hartford 3-0 (25-18, 25-21, 25-16) in the Class L state tournament quarterfinals on May 30.
The second-seeded Newtown High School baseball team came from behind for a 2-1 walk-off extra-inning victory over visiting and No. 15 Naugatuck in the Class LL state tournament’s second round, on May 30.
There are still openings for the Holcombe Hill 5K Trail Run which will benefit the Newtown Forest Association and REACH. It will take place at the Holcombe Hill Wildlife Preserve, 65 Great Hill Road, on Sunday, June 9.
Newtown High School's boys' lacrosse team, seeded tenth in the Class L state tournament, visited No. 7 Xavier of Middletown in the first round on May 29 and came away with a 15-8 victory.
Highlighted by a pair of fifth-inning homeruns, the second-seeded Newtown High School baseball team posted a 9-1 victory over visiting and No. 31 Middletown in the first round of the Class LL state tournament, at home on May 29.
Seeded 17th in the Class LL state bracket, Newtown High School's softball team took the short trip to Danbury to face the No. 16 Hatters in first-round action on May 29.
A four-goal deficit late in the first half, against a Wilton squad out of the tough FCIAC, known for producing some of the best lacrosse teams in the state, didn’t faze Newtown High School’s girls’ squad.
Newtown High School golfer David Brestovansky took home South-West Conference championship medalist honors as the tournament's top golfer for the second year in a row. Brestovansky shot a 76 to lead Newtown to a fourth-place team finish at Ridgewood Country Club in Danbury on May 28.
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.
