Holiday Festival & Weekend Events

By SHANNON HICKS

Published: Dec 04, 2009 12:00 AM

The first weekend of December is traditionally one of the busiest in Newtown, beginning with the tree lighting ceremony at Ram Pasture on Friday, continuing with myriad activities on Saturday, and concluding with the annual Holiday Festival and additional events on Sunday. Details on most events are offered throughout this weekâs issue of The Newtown Bee, but a listing of the events and details is offered here for ease of planning.

Friday, December 4

Annual St Rose Christmas Boutique, 6â10 pm, St Rose Parish Hall, 46 Church Hill Road, $5 (Friday only, includes wine and cheese, refreshments and desserts, live music), holiday decorations, gifts for teachers and friends, Irish booth and more, continues to December 6; 203-426-1014.

Tree Lighting, gathering begins 6:30 pm, lighting at 7, Ram Pasture, Elm Drive at Hawley Road, townâs tree lighting will include live music, caroling, visits with Santa & Mrs Claus, hot cocoa; note Elm Drive will be closed to vehicle traffic.

Saturday, December 5

Newtown Rotary Club Pancake Breakfast, 8 amâ1 pm, Edmond Town Hall Alexandria Room, 45 Main Street, $7, $3 for ages 10 and under, all you can eat fundraiser.

Breakfast With Santa, 9â11 am, Newtown Middle School cafeteria, Queen Street, donations for food pantry requested, meet Santa & Mrs Claus, gifts for each child, âMad Scienceâ holiday show, plenty of refreshments, presented by Parks & Recreation; 203-270-4340.

Garden Club of Newtown Annual Greens Sale, 9 amâ1 pm, Newtown Meeting House, 31 Main Street, decorated wreaths, swags, table arrangements, etc, by members of club, also club cookbooks, gardening books by Sydney Eddison and more; 203-270-1108.

St Rose Christmas Boutique continues, 10 amâ7 pm, St Rose Parish Hall, 46 Church Hill Road, free admission, see December 4 details.

NUMC Monthly Pasta Dinner, 5â7:30 pm, Newtown United Methodist Church, 92 Church Hill Road, $9 adults, $8 seniors, $3.50 children; 203-426-9998.

Sunday, December 6

St Rose Christmas Boutique continues, 8 amâ2 pm, St Rose Parish Hall, 46 Church Hill Road, free admission, see December 4 details.

VNA Thrift Shop Christmas Boutique, 11 amâ2 pm, Edmond Town Hall, 45 Main Street.

24th Annual Holiday Festival, 11 amâ5 pm, Main Street (Edmond Town Hall, Booth Library, etc), $15, $25/family (two adults & two children to age 12; addtâl child $5/each), arts and crafts show, Victorian Tea, Nutcracker ballet, Festival of Trees (free), gingerbread house contest (free), childrenâs activities, photos with Santa, tours of historic homes decorated by local designers for the holidays; 203-426-8103.

Newtown Historical Society Holiday Open House, 12â4 pm, Matthew Curtiss House, 44 Main Street, free, guided tours by junior and senior docents, weaving demos by Rebecca Arkenberg; 203-426-5937.

A Christmas Carol, curtain 2 pm, The Little Theatre, Orchard Hill Road, $15.

Newtown Choral Society Winter Concert, 4 pm, Newtown Meeting House, 31 Main Street, $10, $8 seniors and age 12 and under, Mary Andreotta will direct group in Stroopeâs American Christmas, also excerpts from The Polar Express.

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Budget should be cut by 20%, spending $2.65 million dollars per every week forever is absolutely unsustainable ! Do everything possible to Vote No on another nonsensical attempt to increase the cost of living ! Taxpayers are honestly just renting their houses from the town, it costs me $40 every night to sleep in my own bed ! Soon it will be cheaper living in a hotel than owning a property in Newtown !

Finance Board Moves $1 Million From Education Budget

I went and complaint to Rosenthall's father that the budget was too high at $80M several years ago, now we are at almost $140M . $2.65 million per week that is ! Fairfield hills should have long been developed by investors money and bring revenue to the town. WE ARE DRIVING OURSELVES OUT OF NEWTOWN by doing this and constantly raising the cost of living. It makes zero sense, any extra budget money gets burned on stupid stuff just so they can ask for more next year. Put an END TO THIS STUPIDITY and CUT THE BUDGET 20%. Everyone will be just fine ! Kids won't get any smarter anyway. That's an honest reality !

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Any common sensical person can do this job at under 100k salary. Way overhyped and overpaid at over $200k annual salary. We as voters have to put an end to this. Not to mention an assistant comes along with this job paid at 190k! What is wrong with you voters?

Melillo Announces Departure To Darien

Honestly, I don't know why anyone would ever vote to increase their taxes and give their money away.

Difficult To Vote For BOE Budget Without Specifics

The entire budget needs to be cut not raised. The proposed budget now would sit that we spend $2.65 million dollars every week. For population of less than 30k people it is absolutely absurd ! You cannot keep driving older folks out of town just to create a revolving door of parents who come here, educate their kids and run away ! There is no need to be paying 190K annual salary to an ASSISTANT to superintendent, not in the best interest of tax payers ! The voting turnout at 9% is ridiculous ! Lobby lawmakers to change the voting by mail, so everyone gets a ballot in the mail and at least 51% of residents vote to approve, otherwise the budget should not be approved if you don't have the majority ! Most folks don't even know when the vote is ! They have taxes bundled with mortgage and don't even know ! We are raising cost of living for everyone and it is absolutely not necessary.

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