Local political representatives and groups travel to Washington, D.C., to deliver a press conference, on December 6, demanding Congress act on preventing gun violence.

The natural fragrance of fresh evergreens filled The Meeting House during the Garden Club of Newtown’s annual Holiday Greens & Gift Sale on December 1.

UPDATE: NEF's Annual Evening of Comedy has been postponed to Friday, March 1. || The Newtown Education Foundation Honor an Educator program is live in time for the holiday season, according to the foundation. The foundation has also announced its next Annual Evening of Comedy fundraiser is slated to be held January 19.

3OH!3 celebrated the ten-year anniversary of their album "Want" by bringing their Want Party House Tour with Emo Nite to Irving Plaza in New York City on November 27.

Newtown, from a cat's point of view.

The Holiday Festival drew crowds to enjoy house tours, visits with Santa, Nutcracker performances, and more along Main Street on December 2.

The annual Holiday Book & Gift Sale, presented by the Friends of the C.H. Booth Library, welcomed large crowds of shoppers on December 1 and 2.

Santa Claus visited Sandy Hook last weekend and took dozens of people of all ages for rides on his sleigh. Chaperoned by members and family of Tolland Fire Department, who have a special relationship with Mr Claus and host an annual tour with one of his sleighs, the group spent six hours offering rides on a sled (named, appropriately, Engine 12-25) on December 2.