All are invited to join families and individuals from Newtown who will be walking in the CROP Hunger Walk, scheduled this year for Sunday, October 27, at Fairfield Hills.

When Newtown Congregational Church hosts this year’s Mississippi BBQ & Shrimp Boil on October 19, guests will once again enjoy a traditional low country menu of Cajun seasoned shrimp, BBQ chicken, Andouile sausage, and plenty of sides. They will also welcome Matt Cole, a former Newtown resident who is now working for a United Church of Christ mission that NCC has strong ties with.

NOTE: This story has been updated to include comments from Monsignor Robert Weiss, senior pastor of St Rose of Lima Roman Catholic Church. || More than 70 former or deceased Bridgeport Diocese clergy members are accused of sexual abuse, and three previous bishops are being harshly criticized for ignoring accusations and enabling accused clergy members to continue patters of abuse after being transferred.

NOTE: Due to reported illness, this program is being postponed; new date TBA. || Newtown Congregational Church will host an afternoon of conversation, coffee and refreshments with the Rev Dr Davida Foy Crabtree, a United Church of Christ minister with a keen application of the faith to daily life, on Sunday, September 29.

In honor of its 100th anniversary year, Congregation Adath Israel hosted a special Shabbat Sabbath service on Friday, September 13.

As friends and family members dined together, children jumped in a bounce house, tractor-pulled hayrides were underway, and dancers swung around each other with flair at the 44th Ukrainian Festival, hosted at Paproski’s Castle Hill Pumpkin Patch on September 15.

The congregation at Christ the King Lutheran Church, 85 Mt Pleasant Road, celebrated their third Annual Oktoberfest/German Food Fest on September 8.

Monsignor Robert Weiss, senior pastor of St Rose of Lima Roman Catholic Church, recently sat down with The Newtown Bee to discuss the role he plays and has played since arriving at the 160-year-old Catholic parish, as well as a bit of the church's deeper history.

The 44th Ukrainian Festival will take place Sunday, September 15, at Paproski’s Castle Hill Pumpkin Patch, 25 Sugar Lane (off Route 302).

The Connecticut chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, on Monday condemned anti-Semitic vandalism targeting a Newtown synagogue and expressed solidarity with the local Jewish community.