From the photo archives: Beautiful visitor

Sharing a memory - photo from my front yard in April, 2017.

Valley Shakespeare Festival to mark Frances Kellogg's birthday at Homestead

 

Troop 3 Derby Scouts to hold Colonial Cemetery cleanup on Good Friday

DERBY - Troop 3 Derby Scouts will hold a community cleanup of debris, branches, and trash along the entrance and within Colonial Cemetery on Derby Avenue on Good Friday from 8 a.m.-2 p.m. 

They also will apply cleaner to the stones.

This is a Derby 350th event that is cosponsored by Troop 3 Derby Scouts. 

Bring work gloves and rakes. The cleanup meets student community service hours requirements. Lunch to be provided.

Seymour Public Library to close for Good Friday

 

Abundant Life Ministries in Ansonia to give out food; note time change

*** Time Change *** 

This Monday the foodshare truck will be at The Abundant Life Fellowship Ministries.

 Time change 9:15-10:15 a.m.

Plumb Memorial Library in Shelton to show movie 'Conclave' today

SHELTON - Plumb Memorial Library is offering a bimonthly “Friday Films” series on Fridays at 1 p.m. The films will be viewed in the downstairs Meeting Room.

This week’s film is "Conclave."

No registration is required and light refreshments will be served.

The Library is at 65 Wooster St.

This is shared from the Library's Facebook page. 

Derby Public Library to host nature reading series book discussion April 21

DERBY - In collaboration with the Kellogg Environmental Center, Derby Public Library will be hosting the first part of the 2025 Naturally Nature Reading Series at 6:30 p.m. April 21.

The Reading Series will focus on led book discussions and workshops.

The first in our series will be focused on “Braiding Sweetgrass” by Robin Wall Kimmerer and will begin with a book discussion hosted by the Derby Public Library.

The Library is at 313 Elizabeth St.

Book Summary: Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, and as a woman, Kimmerer shows how other living beings―asters and goldenrod, strawberries and squash, salamanders, algae, and sweetgrass―offer us gifts and lessons, even if we've forgotten how to hear their voices.

This is shared from the Library's Facebook page.