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The Newtown Bee is a weekly newspaper for Newtown, Connecticut. Founded by John T. Pearce [1] in 1877, the Bee has been published continuously by the Smith family. [2] The Bee is owned by Bee Publishing Company. [2] The company also publishes Antiques and the Arts Weekly .
The town of Newtown, originally known as Quanneapague, was purchased from the Pohtatuck Indians in 1705. In 1708, 36 Connecticut Englishmen petitioned the General Assembly to settle an area north of Stratford (at least seven men previously had been given permission to settle the area). The 36 became "petition proprietors" legally entitled to ...
FIPS code. 09-52980. GNIS ID. 0213475. Website. www .newtown-ct .gov. Newtown ( / ˈnutaʊn / NOO-town) is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. It is part of the Greater Danbury metropolitan area as well as the New York metropolitan area. Newtown was founded in 1705, and later incorporated in 1711.
The Newtown Borough Historic District is a 100-acre (40 ha) historic district in the borough of Newtown in Newtown, Connecticut. There is a local historic district and an overlapping district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. The National Register district includes just a small part of the current borough, but ...
Daily newspapers (currently published) CTNewsJunkie – Hartford. The Advocate – Stamford. The Bristol Press – Bristol. The Bulletin – Norwich. The Chronicle – Willimantic. Connecticut Examiner [1] – Old Lyme. Connecticut Inside Investigator [2] – Hartford. Connecticut Post – Bridgeport.
The Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a mass shooting that occurred on December 14, 2012, in Newtown, Connecticut, United States, when 20-year-old Adam Lanza shot and killed 26 people. Twenty of the victims were children between six and seven years old, and the other six were adult staff members. Earlier that day, before driving to the ...
Murder of Helle Crafts. Helle Crafts ( English: / ˈhɛlə ˈkræfts / ⓘ; born Helle Lorck Nielsen; July 7, 1947 – November 19, 1986) was a Danish flight attendant who was murdered by her husband, Eastern Air Lines pilot Richard Crafts. Her death led to the state of Connecticut 's first murder conviction without the victim's body.
The Borough of Newtown occupies about 1,252 acres (5.07 km 2) (or roughly two square miles) in the central part of town. Incorporated in 1824 by an act of the Connecticut General Assembly, it is one of only nine remaining boroughs in the state. The borough adopted zoning for the town center long before the rest of the community.