Friday, October 29

Treblehook performance, 9 pm, The Fireside Inn, 123 Main Street South/Route 25, performance by local trio Alan Morgan, Andy Spencer and Brian Morgan, original songs and covers.

 

Saturday, October 30

Special Hours for Absentee Voting for November 2 election, 9 am to noon at town clerk’s office in Edmond Town Hall; telephone, 270-4210.

Halloween Fair for children 2-10 years old, 1 to 4 pm, Newtown Youth Services, 41-A Main Street; games, face painting, prizes, etc. Sponsored by NYS Youth Advisory Board; donation admission to raise money for annual scholarship; 270-4335.

Newtown Masquerade Ball, 7:30-11 pm, Newtown High School, 12 Berkshire Road, tickets $15 each or $25/couple, raffles, costumes encouraged, presented by NHS Charity Club, with proceeds to East Coast Assistance Dogs, Inc.; 270-8490.

Sunday, October 31

HALLOWEEN

Blessing of the Animals, 1 pm, behind the Newtown United Methodist Church, 92 Church Hill Road, Sandy Hook Center.

Violinist Nokuthula Ngwenyama, 3 pm, Edmond Town Hall, 45 Main Street, tickets $14, $12 students and seniors, free ages 5-14 with ticket-holding adult, Newtown Friends of Music-sponsored concert will feature works of Haydn, Hindemuth, Bach, Britten & Paganini, accompanist is pianist Melvin Chen, reception follows performance; 426-6470.

Monday, November 1

Blood Drive, 8 am to 4:15 pm, Trinity Church undercroft, Main Street, sponsored by American Red Cross, call 800/Give-Life for an appointment.

Voter making session, 9 am to noon, at Registrar of Voters Office, Edmond Town Hall; for those who have moved to Newtown, became a citizen, or reached the age of 18 between October 20 and November 2; 270-4259.

Board of Selectmen, 7:30 pm, Booth Library, 25 Main Street.

Tuesday, November 2

ELECTION DAY. Municipal elections; polling places open from 6 am to 8 pm; polling places located at Newtown Middle School, Sandy Hook Firehouse, Head O’ Meadow School and Middle Gate School.

Lake Zoar Authority, 7:30 pm, Southbury Town Hall, Main Street South, Southbury.

Wednesday, November 3

Housatonic Valley Economic Development Partnership, 8 am, Connecticut Light & Power Company offices, Barnabas Road, Hawleyville.

Board of Education, 7:30 pm, school board conference room, Newtown Middle School, 11 Queen Street.

Lake Lillinonah Authority, 7:30 pm, Bridgewater Town Hall, Route 133, Bridgewater.

Parks and Recreation Commission, 7:30 pm, town offices, Canaan House, Fairfield Hills.

Police Commission, 7:30 pm, police station, 3 Main Street.

Legislative Council, 8 pm, Booth Library, 25 Main Street.

Zoning Board of Appeals, 8 pm, town offices, Canaan House, Fairfield Hills.

Thursday, November 4

Planning and Zoning Commission, 7:30 pm, Newtown Middle School auditorium, 11 Queen Street.

Water Pollution Control Authority, 7:30 pm, sewage treatment plant, Commerce Road.

Friday, November 5

12th Annual Northeast Music, Art and Dance Festival (NOMAD), 7:30-10:30 pm, 12 Berkshire Road, tickets $8, opening night will be devoted to a Contra Dance party, festival continues through November 7; 372-3890, 226-6681.

Opening night for Town Players’ Bad Seed, 8 pm, The Little Theatre, Orchard Hill Road, call for ticket prices, performances of Maxwell Anderson’s thriller continue Friday and Saturday evenings through November 27; 270-9144.

Two toll gates were erected in Newtown when the Bridgeport-Newtown Turnpike was established (on Route 25) in the early 1800s. One, called the Middle Gate, was located on the Monroe town line close to where Middle Gate Elementary School is now exists. The North Gate was in Hawleyville.