Here in Newtown — June is dog license month, and this weekend also offers a opportunity to get your lovable pooches their rabies vaccines.

The Planning & Zoning Commission (P&Z) will conduct a public hearing on a local man’s proposal to create a Commercial Design District (CDD) overlay zone near the Exit 11 interchange of Interstate 84 in Sandy Hook.

Flags will fly at half-staff until sunset on June 4, in remembrance of Virginia Beach victims.

The Planning & Zoning Commission (P&Z) has scheduled a public hearing on a firm’s request to install a solar/electric panel array at a healthcare facility in Sandy Hook. The hearing is slated for the P&Z’s Thursday, June 6, meeting which starts at 7:30 pm at Newtown Municipal Center, 3 Primrose Street.

Just like they have been for 50 years, NVNA Thrift Shop devotees and newcomers alike have sought and found fantastic deals perusing the racks of gently used and worn donations, which are resold at a fraction of their original cost — all to benefit the century-old local service organization.

A Memorial Day ceremony on Monday, May 27, at VFW Post 308 honored the memory of those who lost their lives serving their country.

Thirteen months after a proposed ban on most, if not all, retail use of plastic shopping bags was formally taken up for consideration, the Legislative Council will hold a public hearing on a related ordinance that was recently recommended, before weighing the pros and cons of such an action.

Police report that at about 2 pm on Friday, May 31, a worker at the town’s waste transfer station at Ethan Allen Road discovered an unusual and potentially dangerous object in some household waste that had been dumped at the facility.

Sandy Hook Promise, Connecticut Against Gun Violence, Connecticut Teens Against Gun Violence, Jr Newtown Action Alliance, the Connecticut Chapter of Moms Demand Action, Mothers United Against Violence, and the Newtown Action Alliance will rally to Turn Newtown Orange to End Gun Violence, Sunday, June 2, from 3 to 5 pm, at Newtown Middle School, 11 Queen Street, Newtown.

Residents should note a number of changes to the Town of Newtown boards and commissions schedule that will affect meetings in upcoming weeks.