A guided tour of The Newtown Fruit Trail will be offered by its founder and others next Sunday afternoon.

Three local authors have been invited by the Garden Club of Newtown to sign books during the club’s annual Holiday Greens & Gifts Sale on Saturday, December 3.

The second annual Sip ‘n Shop will offer participants the chance to shop from a variety of vendors while enjoying wine and beer tastings, with the opportunity to order wine and beer from local vendors for later pick-up.

Newtown High School students are staging its fall drama at the school, 12 Berkshire Road, November 17 to 20.

Hawleyville Volunteer Fire Company will conduct a Fill the Boot Drive one week from today.

Newtown’s five fire companies will once again join together the Saturday before Thanksgiving to collect donations for the town’s food pantry.

A Newtown High School student is hoping for a large turnout at Danbury Sports Dome, 25 Shelter Rock Lane, Danbury, on November 17 from 4-6 pm for the “Sean’s Mile, A Walk 4 All” event.

The Connecticut Choral Society will perform “A Celebration of Bach, Vivaldi, and Handel,” part of the choral society’s 40th anniversary concert season. Three performances of the program are planned including Friday, November 18, at Trinity Episcopal Church in Newtown.

Readers are invited to join local schoolchildren, Women Involved in Newtown and Newtown Human Services Department for the annual Thanksgiving Basket Program.

Darlene Kascak, educational coordinator and traditional Native American Storyteller at The Institute for American Indian Studies in Washington (Conn.), will participate in Newtown Historical Society’s Open House and Native American and Colonial Thanksgiving remembrance this month.