Newtown streets aren’t exactly paved with gold (just ask the Board of Ed), but our lawns and gardens are glowing bright yellow with forsythia, daffodils, and even dandelions — all in full, glorious bloom in time for the Easter weekend.

What would Easter be without a broken egg or two? Better yet, make that a hatched eaglet chick or two. Check out the Northeast Utilities Eagle Cam at www.nu.com/eagles to see a live streaming video of the first American bald eagle chick that hatched on Monday, April 10, under the watchful eye of both parents. The second egg was due to hatch on Thursday, April 13, so by the time this paper reaches the newsstands, there should be a full clutch of two brand new bald eagles in the utility company’s Barton Island nest on the Connecticut River. Though they are only tiny gray fluff balls at this point, the eaglet chicks will grow rapidly and be ready to fledge at nine weeks. Meanwhile, the parents take turns bringing fish to the nest, and will not leave the chicks unprotected.

The saga of 55 Main Street continues. In fact, this seems to be one of the more popular addresses not only in Newtown but also in the entire United States, if not the world and maybe outer space. Hot on the heels of the address being mistakenly attributed in this column two weeks ago to the Matthew Curtiss House that is owned by the Newtown Historical Society and is actually located at 44 Main Street, the good historians who open mail addressed to the society’s 1750s-era museum received a letter duly addressed to 55 Main Street.

This proves, by the way, that someone out there is reading this column.

Back to our story. On closer inspection, it turned out the letter was meant to go to 55 Main Street in Newburgh, Ellon, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, and the letter is now safely on its way to its intended recipients. We can thank alert Newtown resident Laura Lerman, who really does live at 55 Main Street in this very town, for passing on this important bit of news.

It looks like Newtown Middle School Project Adventure teacher Chester Washburn and his wife, Katie (Ward), have both a new project and a new adventure ahead of them. The Washburns are pleased to announce the birth of a daughter, Mary Grace, born at Danbury Hospital on March 21. Congratulations to the family!

If you think a woman’s work is never done, you should be a member of the Newtown Tercentennial Steering Committee. Almost half a year after Newtown’s 300th Anniversary, the board continues to meet and sort out the loose ends of last year’s celebration. At the April 5 meeting, treasurer John Trentacosta reported that the committee was in good shape financially, with enough money left over to provide for a lasting memorial to commemorate the tercentennial. The committee is still brainstorming just how that will manifest itself, along with planning for the disposal of extraneous tercentennial souvenirs and such. If you are looking for a special graduation or wedding present this spring, Newtown Savings Bank still has several copies of the beautiful Newtown: 300 coffee table book for sale.

Newtown author Dave Shugarts is whispering some more secrets. Secrets of the Code, on which he collaborated and which demystified The Da Vinci Code, has been released in softcover. Word is, there are a number of significant updates, including a biography by Dave of besieged Da Vinci Code author, Dan Brown. Now here’s something to curl up with during the April showers.

I was quick to scurry across the pasture and get in line when I heard that Ferris Acres Creamery on Route 302 had reopened for the season on Wednesday. After a whisker-lickin’ good bowl of my personal favorite flavor, coffee almond fudge, I settled down to dream about all of the flavors still left to try this summer. It was better than counting sheep…or cows.

Newtown Rotary’s newest member, Dr David Charash, was inducted into the club earlier this month by President Paul Lux. He was made a member during one of the local chapter’s regular weekly meetings at the Fireside Inn. His sponsor for club membership was Rotarian Bill Calderara. Dr Charash works in the emergency room at Danbury Hospital. He lives in Newtown with his wife Joan and two young children, Elizabeth and Emily.

Any of the fans of traditional New Orleans music who gathered to hear the legendary Preservation Hall Jazz Band at Edmond Town Hall last fall remember not only its members’ harrowing stories of post-Katrina survival that were related during the program, but news of the extensive damage to Preservation Hall itself. Well an email came in this morning from New Orleans addressed to all the fans in Newtown who made donations during the show, and according to Preservation Hall spokesman Scott Simoneaux, the facility has been restored and is ready to open just in time for the New Orleans Jazz Festival! Maybe I’ll need to stowaway with one of our friends heading south for the show; everyone knows how much I love crawfish!

If you see Steve Small this week, try to steer clear of any topics associated with the Far East, or China, or anything revolutionary. He’s been reading Mao: The Unknown Story, an 832-page tome about China’s revolutionary icon, and he’s full of Mao trivia. People browsing through the wine racks at Yankee Fine Wine & Spirits on Queen Street, where Steve is wine manager, have had to hide in the Bordeauxs and Barolos lately just so they won’t have to listen to one of Steve’s lengthy expositions on Mao. After a couple of weeks of reading, he’s about halfway through the book. He’s already renewed it at the library once, and I’ve heard he’s made inquiries about how many more times he can renew it before they repossess the book. Fortunately, the waiting list for the book at the library isn’t as long as it used to be; most of his customers know all about the “Unknown Story” by now so there’s no need to read the book.

I haven’t told Steve about next week’s column, however, so there is plenty of reason to…

Read me again.