Friday, September 9

Newtown Newcomers & Neighbors Club Annual Kickoff Celebration, 7–9 pm, Edmond Town Hall’s Alexandria Room, 45 Main Street, free event invites new and longtime residents to meet members of a club that offers social and networking activities for all ages, refreshments, face painting offered (children welcome), door prizes; 270-6481.

Performance of Fuddy Meers, curtain 8 pm, The Little Theater, Orchard Hill Road, tickets $18, Town Players are performing David Lindsay-Abaire’s comedy weekends until September 24; 270-9144.

Saturday, September 10

Board of Assessment Appeals, 9 to 1 am, Edmond Town Hall, 445 Main Street.

Newtown Forest Association Guided Nature Walk, 11 am (rain date September 11), Hattertown Pond Preserve, park on Castle Meadow Road at Maltbie Road, join NFA board members for easy hike while learning the history of the property and discussion of plants and wildlife that might be found along the walk, will last about an hour, NFA is offering monthly walks until mid-October to celebrate tercentennial; 270-3650.

Opening reception for “Faces of Newtown 2005,” 6–8 pm, C.H. Booth Library lower meeting room, 25 Main Street, celebratory unveiling of 13 original portraits done by members of Connecticut Society of Portrait Artists featuring past and present Newtown “citizens of distinction,” collection will remain on view at the library until September 30; 426-4533.

Performance of Fuddy Meers, curtain 8 pm, The Little Theater, Orchard Hill Road, see details under September 9.

Sunday, September 11

Sandy Hook Village Farmers Market, 9 am–2 pm, parking lot at 5 Glen Road, Sandy Hook, local farmers, crafts vendors, baked goods, also nutritional seminars, children’s entertainment, runs weekly through mid-October; 426-2427.

Monday, September 12

Board of Finance, 7:30 pm, Town Hall South, 3 Main Street.

“Newtown Notables, gone but not forgotten… an encore presentation,” Newtown Meeting House, 31 Main St/Route 25, Newtown, 7:30 pm, free presentation by costumed residents reenacting historic figures of Newtown’s past, complemented by slide show of Village Cemetery (where many of these residents are buried); 426-5937.

Tuesday, September 13

Sandy Hook Organic Farmers Market, 2–6pm, behind St John’s Episcopal Church, 5 Washington Avenue, fruits, vegetables, flowers, baked goods, art, pony rides in weekly event running until October 11; 426-9938.

Open Space Task Force, 4:30 pm, town offices, 31 Peck’s Lane.

Parks and Recreation Commission, 6 pm, Town Hall South, 3 Main Street.

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

Borough Board of Burgesses, 7:30 pm, Town Hall South, 3 Main Street.

Cable Television Advisory Council, 7:30 pm, Charter Communications, Commerce Road.

Edmond Town Hall Board of Managers, 7:30 pm, Edmond Town Hall, 45 Main Street.

Lake Lillinonah Authority, 7:30 pm, Brookfield Town Hall.

Wednesday, September 14

Genealogy Club of Newtown meeting, 7 pm, C.H. Booth Library, 25 Main Street, free, public invited to join club members for program by professional genealogist Tom Howard on “A Bridge To Ancestors and To The Old Country: New England World War I Records”; 426-3889.

Conservation Commission, 7:30 pm, town offices, 31 Peck’s Lane.

 “Fabulous Floral Arrangements from The Supermarket,” 7:30 pm, Newtown Senior Center/Multi-Purpose Building, Riverside Road, free program sponsored by Town & Country Garden Club of Newtown will have landscape designer and master gardener JoAnn Greenwood sharing tips to take supermarket finds and turn them into something special; 426-5359.

Thursday, September 15

Flagpole Photographers Club meeting, 7:30 pm, C.H. Booth Library lower meeting room, 25 Main Street, free and open to anyone interested in photography, presentation by Ken Graff on using Adobe’s Photoshop elements, also members’ contest on “Best of Summer”; 270-8576.

Planning and Zoning Commission, 7:30 pm, town offices, 31 Peck’s Lane.

Friday, September 16

Housatonic Resources Recovery Authority, 10:30 am, Brookfield Town Hall.

Housatonic Valley Council of Elected Officials, 12:30 pm, Brookfield Town Hall. 

Performance of Fuddy Meers, curtain 8 pm, The Little Theater, Orchard Hill Road, tickets $18, Town Players are performing David Lindsay-Abaire’s comedy weekends until September 24 (including matinee this weekend); 270-9144.

Saturday, September 17

Waldorf Treasure Chest: A Tag Sale for Families, 9 am–3 pm (rain date September 24), at Housatonic Valley Waldorf School, 40 Dodgingtown Road, admission $5, sale will feature items in good condition and of interest to families with emphasis on natural materials, proceeds will benefit senior classic trip in April 2006; 364-6522.

4th Annual Antique & Muscle Car Show, 11 am–2 pm, The Homesteads at Newtown, 166 Mt Pleasant Road, display of antique and muscle cars, also DJ Vince Lamenza with music of 1940s–50s, food booths, vendors, raffles and giveaways; 426-8118 ext 1049.

Performance of Fuddy Meers, curtain 8 pm, The Little Theater, Orchard Hill Road, see details under September 16.

Sunday, September 18

Sandy Hook Village Farmers Market, 9 am–2 pm, parking lot at 5 Glen Road, Sandy Hook, local farmers, crafts vendors, baked goods, also nutritional seminars, children’s entertainment, runs weekly through mid-October; 426-2427.

3rd Annual NRPS Kitchens Tour, 11 am–3 pm, tickets $20/advance, $25/day of, ticket-holders will be able to visit kitchens in seven private homes (tickets include map to the homes), light refreshments, presented by Newtown Residential Preservation Society, partial proceeds to benefit Newtown Historical Society; 426-0406, 270-9344, 364-9923.

Matinee of Fuddy Meers, curtain 2 pm, The Little Theater, Orchard Hill Road, tickets $12, see additional details under September 16.