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Shannon Hicks

Sandy Hook

Associate Editor at Newtown Bee

daughter, sister, aunt, wife, friend, master photographer, newspaper editor, Jeep driver, cancer survivor and proud volunteer firefighter

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  • Seniors Encoraged To 'Be Safe, And Your Own Personal Advocates' During Lunch & Learn On Proper Drug Disposal, Substance Abuse Measures

    1 week ago | newtownbee.com | Shannon Hicks

    Attendees of a recent Lunch & Learn program at Newtown Senior Center went home with a lot of important information. The 30 or so guests also went home with a little bit of swag. Senior Center/Social Services Director Natalie Griffith, Newtown Health District Director Donna Culbert, and Newtown Parent Connection Director Nicole Hampton led the 40-minute program on May 30. The three women took turns speaking about medications, which Culbert said are “pretty much a fact of life for most people.

  • Unsolicited Seed Packets Can Carry More Than Pretty Plantings

    1 month ago | newtownbee.com | Shannon Hicks

    Seed packages appearing in local mailboxes may arrive carrying more than unsolicited items to plant. Officials believe the packages could carry one or two different threats: A QR code on the package itself that could contain malware and/or seeds that could pose environmental and/or agricultural risks.

  • ‘Everybody Needs A Good Laugh,’ And Golaszewski’s New Farce Is Ready To Deliver

    1 month ago | newtownbee.com | Shannon Hicks

    Gene Golaszewski wrote most of his first play, Double Vision, in less than a week. “I wrote probably 95% of it in four days,” the Brookfield resident and first-time playwright said recently. “It just came to me,” he said of the play that will debut at The Little Theatre this weekend. After decades of working within the local theater community, Golaszewski’s Double Vision is his first attempt at play writing.

  • Lunch & Learn Asked Attendees: ‘Are You Ready To Move?’

    1 month ago | newtownbee.com | Shannon Hicks

    Four real estate professionals offered a very informative presentation at Newtown Senior Center on April 25. Realtors Joan Alexander and John Batchelor, Broker Ron Boufford, and Mortgage Specialist Dan Ianniello offered advice and answered questions during a packed Lunch & Learn session called “Are You Ready To Move?” All four work for Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices.

  • NHS Graduate, Gun Violence Prevention Activist To Be A Voice Of Hope For CAGV Luncheon

    1 month ago | newtownbee.com | Shannon Hicks

    Matt Holden graduated last year, with the Newtown High School Class of 2024. His was the class that lost 20 fellow classmates 12½ years earlier, on 12/14, when an armed man stormed into Sandy Hook Elementary School and took the lives of 20 children and six adult women with a Bushmaster rifle before killing himself. As with so many others, the day changed Holden. He was a few classrooms away from the ones where his classmates and their teachers were killed.

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The Mask Wearing Non-Globe-Trotting Shannon Hicks
The Mask Wearing Non-Globe-Trotting Shannon Hicks @BeeChick
16 Dec 24

Flipping Taylor holding court in the first scene??! This does not bode well. #YellowstoneTV

The Mask Wearing Non-Globe-Trotting Shannon Hicks
The Mask Wearing Non-Globe-Trotting Shannon Hicks @BeeChick
9 Dec 24

I want to drink with Beth and Teeter but I don't think I could keep a straight face when some poor sap tries to hit on either of them. #yellowst

The Mask Wearing Non-Globe-Trotting Shannon Hicks
The Mask Wearing Non-Globe-Trotting Shannon Hicks @BeeChick
9 Dec 24

Who is this Beth we're seeing tonight? Was that an olive branch to Lynelle??!? #yellow