The Chamber of Commerce of Newtown, The Borough of Newtown and Newtown Parks & Recreation are sponsoring a fundraising drive for the 34th Annual Tree Lighting Ceremony and luminarias display. A new fundraising opportunity has also been introduced this season.

Following a “heartily” recommended action by the Newtown Conservation Commission and a positive referral by the Town Planning & Zoning Commission, Selectmen unanimously approved the acceptance of a 36.26 acre open space parcel during its regular meeting November 19.

Sandy Hook Fire & Rescue Company will launch its annual Christmas Tree Sales fundraiser today, offering fresh-cut Balsam and Fraser firs, pine roping, kissing balls, cemetery boxes and more. Next weekend, firefighters from Tolland will return for the third year to offer residents free rides in an antique sleigh.

Inland Wetlands Commission members are reviewing the various measures that Planters’ Choice, a wholesale plant nursery, has proposed to rectify a wide range of wetlands violations that have been found on several of its properties on Huntingtown Road and Meadowbrook Road.

Police reports for Newtown, Conn. from the period covering November 11-November 17, 2018.

Various roads in the center of Newtown will be impacted by the ninth annual Newtown Turkey Trot 5K Run and Walk, scheduled for Thursday, November 22, between the hours of 7:45 and 9 am.

During the November 19 selectmen’s meeting, First Selectman Daniel Rosenthal briefly took the State Department of Transportation to task for its handling of plowing — or lack of it — on state roads during the early season snowstorm on November 15.

Eversource will be using a helicopter equipped with advanced survey gear to create high resolution, three-dimensional images of transmission line rights of way in Connecticut, from Friday, November 23 to Friday, November 30.

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention is advising consumers, restaurants, and retailers not to eat, serve, or sell any romaine lettuce as it investigates an outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 infections linked to romaine.

Governor Dannel Malloy announced that in anticipation of temperatures over the next couple of days that are forecast to be bitter cold with negative wind chill factors at times, he is activating the State’s Severe Cold Weather Protocol beginning on the afternoon of Wednesday, November 21.