Shannon Hicks

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Unsolicited Seed Packets Can Carry More Than Pretty Plantings

1 week 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 week 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?’

3 weeks 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.
Honoring The Past While Looking Toward The Future: Two Lights For Tomorrow

1 month ago | newtownbee.com | Shannon Hicks

Newtown joined locations across the country last week in commemorating Paul Revere’s historic ride in Massachusetts, where the Boston silversmith and others warned fellow patriots of the British Army’s approach toward Lexington and Concord. Two Lights For Tomorrow was a nationwide initiative to launch the commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States of America.
Interfaith Council’s Seder Enjoyed By 40+ Guests

1 month ago | newtownbee.com | Shannon Hicks

One week before Jews around the world began their annual festival to celebrate the exodus of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt, nearly 40 people gathered in The Great Room of Newtown Congregational Church for a Seder presented by Newtown Interfaith Council (NIC). Guests of all ages, ranging from a table of young adults to tables of adults and senior citizens, listened and joined local leaders of faith while they explained and then observed the steps of a Seder during the April 6 event.
Bethel Man Arrested After Driving Wrong Way On I-84, Crashing Into Tractor-Trailer In Newtown

1 month ago | newtownbee.com | Shannon Hicks

A Bethel man was arrested on three charges early Saturday morning after he crashed his vehicle into another vehicle while traveling in the wrong direction on I-84 in Newtown. It was the latest wrong way crash in Connecticut, where similar crashes have been growing exponentially in recent years. Connecticut State Police responded to I-84 West between Exits 10 and 11 around 2 am April 12 after being alerted to a crash in that area.
Brightening The World, Two Minutes At A Time: The Heart Speak Project

2 months ago | newtownbee.com | Shannon Hicks

John Bobowski and his partners are on a mission to share life-changing stories. “We’ve figured out that people’s lives have magic in them,” he said recently. “Everyone has a story that’s full of magic, some wonder, some incredible event that took place in their life that’s either changed them, or inspired them, and from that we can conclude that the world is full of abundance. “There’s an abundance of joy,” he continued.
Loss Of Federal Funding For Umbrella Nonprofit Means Local Refugee Resettlement Efforts Also Slowed

2 months ago | newtownbee.com | Shannon Hicks

The trickle-down effect of some of President Trump’s first actions after returning to office two months ago has reached Newtown. Soon after his swearing in on January 20, Trump halted the resettlement of refugees from overseas indefinitely as part of his broad immigration crackdown. A letter issued by the US State Department that week suspended funding to groups that assist refugees with housing, job placement, and other needs as part of a broad pause on aid, according to Reuters.
FONS Receives CT Humanities Grant Toward ‘Timeless Newtown’ Programming

2 months ago | newtownbee.com | Shannon Hicks

Friends Of Newtown Seniors (FONS) has received a grant from the state’s affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to put toward expenses for a pivotal One Town One Read program tied in to the recently launched “Timeless Newtown” series. “Timeless Newtown: Embracing Every Generation” is a series organizers hope will break through stereotypes and destructive thinking toward aging and the elderly. There are three areas of focus for the year-long series.