Throughout Autism Awareness Month this April, Families United in Newtown (FUN) is hoping local residents will help celebrate autism awareness all month long by hanging or displaying blue lighting at their homes and businesses.

Newtown Interfaith Council has announced it will present a community gathering this weekend. All are invited to be together in the midst of grief, to find peace and support. The council is asking that all media respect the privacy of those attending.

The Town of Newtown is offering the following resources for support and assistance, following the death of a Sandy Hook resident Monday morning.

March is National Nutrition Month, and local health officials say that Newtown residents are blessed with loads of options to access good, fresh, healthy food — from its farms and markets to the wide variety of food establishments that work to source as much as possible of what they serve from local providers, 365 days a year.

Visitors to the second floor Reference area of C.H. Booth Library will be seeing a brand new resource that is aimed at promoting public health and educating patrons about a new research program on precision medicine.

As many across the US this week observe National Groundwater Awareness Week, the Newtown Health District (NHD) is encouraging Newtown home and business owners who use private wells as their main source for drinking, bathing, or cooking water to have their water tested for bacteria and other contaminants.

State Representative Mitch Bolinsky (R-106) and Sean King, a staff attorney at the Connecticut Office of the Healthcare Advocate (OHA) met with a dozen or so attendees at a Forum on Health Care Costs at the C.H. Booth Library March 4.

The next Families United in Newtown (FUN) meeting is set for Saturday, March 9, and will have a St Patty’s Day theme.

It appears that enthusiasm for hosting an annual Relay for Life in Newtown has run its course.