Newtown Bee

Tuesday Tunes: Rebbie Rye Start Time: 11:00 am Dickinson Memorial Park, 50 Elm Drive. Free Family-friendly concert featuring Rebbie Rye and her team who write original songs and stories that encourage children to use their imagination and find their own creative outlet, rain location Hawley Elementary School gym, 29 Church Hill Road; 203-426-4533, chboothlibrary.org. Category Children & Family Events, Concerts/Musical Events, Miscellaneous

NaviWell LLC — Introduction and Meeting July 20, 2026 at 01:00 pm Start Time: 1:00 pm Newtown Senior Center, 8 Simpson Street. Free for members (nonmembers call for details) NaviWell is a nonclinical care coordination service for seniors and families, learn more about the services it provides; 203-270-4310. Category

Magic Monday Presents: Full Effect Productions July 20, 2026 at 11:00 am Start Time: 11:00 am C.H. Booth Library (meeting room), 25 Main Street. Magician and entertainer Steve Woyce will transform the library into a magical dinosaur museum, for ages 4-11, registration requested; 203-426-4533, chboothlibrary.org. Category

Wednesday, July 8: 1:46 am, service call, 81 Woods Lane, Hawleyville responded; 5:13 am, structure fire, 9 Horseshoe Ridge Road, all companies responded; 5:13 am, service call, 81 Woods Lane, Hawleyville responded; 5:12 pm, service call, 15 Berkshire Road, Sandy Hook responded.

The Friends of the C.H. Booth Library Book Sale opened on Friday, July 10. Ticket sales for the capped attendance began at noon, and the Friends quickly met their cap of 250 attendees. This year, the Friends celebrated the milestone 50th anniversary book sale by discounting Friday’s tickets by 50%. Book resellers, dealers, and lovers flooded Reed Intermediate School to scope out the 100,000+ books and other items for sale.

Board of Education (BOE) members discussed Newtown Public School District's preliminary student assessment data and climate survey results at their special meeting on Wednesday, July 8. The meeting, which doubled as the BOE's summer retreat, was held in BOE Conference Room 1. BOE Chair Alison Plante said the group was going to review the school climate survey results at their regularly scheduled meeting the following week.

Some restaurants feed you. Gino's Parlor makes you feel at home. Since opening at 102 Church Hill Road in Sandy Hook in 2021, Gino's Parlor has brought more than four decades of New York pizza tradition to Connecticut — and never once lost the soul that built it. This is a place born in Queens, raised on real ingredients, and rooted in the belief that good food and good people go hand in hand.

For those who have seen the signs around town, Newtown Volunteer Ambulance Corps (NVAC) is hosting its fall EMT class from September-December. But Steve Rambone, lead EMT instructor, said to sign up now because spots fill up quick. Rambone has been a member of NVAC for 35 years and has been teaching the EMT class for 12. Before teaching the EMT class, Rambone was a schoolteacher in New York for 38 years. Class begins on September 8 and runs through mid-December.

Collision At Driveway Newtown Police report Juan Castaneda, 51, of Breinigsville, Penn, operating a 2025 Cadillac Escalade, was stopped in the southbound lane of Hawleyville Road at the entrance of a driveway at 10:42 am July 6. Gerard Alix, 79, of Brookfield, operating a 2018 Hyundai Santa Fe, was traveling northbound on Hawleyville Road. Castaneda turned left to enter the driveway and was struck by Alix's vehicle. No injuries were reported. Neither vehicle was towed.

Internationally recognized musicians Scott Spray, aka Mr Bassman, and Bobby Torello, aka Bobby T, recently joined local musicians Jay and Todd Willie and Ken Hanna in a dynamic musical performance at NewSylum Brewing Company. Torello and Spray have both been inducted in the New England Music Hall of Fame.