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Get Out: Holiday Lights, Festivals, Sales

Activities for Dec. 1-7.

Check with event organizers for any schedule changes. Go to our events page for more activities.

1.
Where/When: 6pm, Fri
Why Go: This is the place to be to kick off the Christmas and holiday season.
Pricing: Free

2.
Where/When: Church Hill and Glen roads, 4pm, Sat

Why Go: For anyone on this side of town, this has become a popular way to kick off the holiday season
Pricing: Free

3.
Where/When: 23 Barnabas Road, 5:30pm, Sun
Why Go: Not to be outdone, Hawleyville offers this quaint tree lighting for residents on the western side of town
Pricing: Free

4.
Where/When: , 9:30am, Sat; 11am, Sun
Why Go: Friends of the C.H. Booth Library holds sale of gift quality books, CDs, DVDs and other items
Pricing: Free

5.
Where/When: , 9am, Sat
Why Go: Garden Club members plan for this sale all year long where wreaths, swags and table arrangements for the holiday will be sold.
Pricing: Free

6.
Where/When: Main Street, 11am, Sun
Why Go: Historic walking tour of Main Street, Teddy Bear tea, gingerbread house contest, decorated door and house contest are part of this holiday mainstay in town sponsored by the Newtown Youth & Family Services
Pricing: $15

7.
Where/When: , 8pm, Fri-Sat; 2pm, Sun
Why Go: Catch the final show of the Town Players' season
Pricing: $20

8.
Where/When:
, 7-9pm, Sun
Why Go: Few things better than all-you-can-eat-and-drink pancakes, sausage, apple sauce and beverage with rotarians
Pricing: $7, adults/$3 children

9. The Mighty Macs (G)
Where/When: , 7pm, Thu-Sat; 1, 4, 9pm, Fri, Sat
Why Go: Learn how the big business of collegiate women's basketball got started in this movie about the first women's collegiate basketball championship.
Pricing: $2

10. The Help (PG-13)
Where/When: , 7pm, Sun-Wed; 1pm, Tue
Why Go: Jessica Chastain received a Hollywood Film Festival Breakthrough Actress Award for her role about a white socialite who encourages black maids in her community to talk about their experiences in the segregated South during the 1960s.
Pricing: $2

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Lois Imbriano Barber May 18, 2013 at 08:24 pm
To further support my support of Aurelia, the letter above states it was the New York Post thatRead More wanted the details. Good for you town clerk! I goggled the Connecticut Council on Freedom of Information and they are indeed nothing more than a non-profit group. They are not a government agency. And an inept one - their own website is a mess. What clowns.- http://ctcouncilfoi.org/
Jeff May 18, 2013 at 02:50 pm
Town Clerk Aurelia is already causing the town to needlessly spend money defending her derelictionRead More of duty: "An attorney representing the town, with the law firm Cohen and Wolf, issued an opinion in response to the, (New York), Post's request stating that the public is only allowed to view death and marriage certificates that are "at least one hundred years old." Cost aside she is pushing for a state law that would restrict access to a minors birth certificate for 6 months, she originally wanted them sealed for 10 years. The only thing the proposed law is going to accomplish is the healing that has been accomplished is going to be undone when the seal expires. This is much ado about nothing. http://www.newstimes.com/local/article/Newtown-officials-withhold-death-certificates-4526713.php
Jeff May 18, 2013 at 02:07 pm
While I have no desire to view any of these death certificates, the law is the law. I have neverRead More viewed a death certificate, I doubt there is anything listed beyond the name of the decedent, dates of birth & death, parentage, and cause of death. Town Clerk Aurelia is clearly in violation of her oath of office. Her job is not to be administered based on feelings. In doing this she is opening the town up to F.O.I. violations, potential litigation, and fanning the flames of the crazy conspiracy theories. To quote the article, "we feel its an extreme invasion of privacy for these families." Should someone take this to F.O.I. or put it before a judge the town will lose. Do your job as required by statute.