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Hello Newtown! Here's our latest buzz. Let's get into it. ☀️

In today's newsletter:

  • How Newtown's Little Angels Shrine is comforting grieving families
  • When the Walk to End Alzheimer's comes to Fairfield Hills

Also on today's calendar: PROTECTING THE VOTE and CIVIL RIGHTS : Meet ACLU featured speaker at HFFC's September event and 9 more events.

Today's riddle: What did the fish say when she hit a wall? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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Weather forecast:

  • Monday: Mostly sunny and less humid, with a high of 72 and low of 45 degrees.
  • Tuesday: Sun yielding to clouds, temps: high: 70, low: 52.
  • Wednesday: Mostly sunny and nice, with a high of 76 and low of 62 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Our Lady of Guadalupe comes to Little Angels Shrine (bridgeportdiocese.org) — In Newtown's Resurrection Cemetery, Little Angels Shrine on South Main Street now features a new white marble statue of Our Lady of Guadalupe, intended as a comforting focus for families grieving miscarriages and infant loss. Local clergy, organizers, and parents describe how the shrine offers burial, memorial walls, and a peaceful space for prayer and healing, with details on how residents can use its services.
   

• Republican-American calendar for Saturday, Sept. 12 (nhregister.com) — Several regional events are highlighted, including an October 24 Walk to End Alzheimer's at Fairfield Hills in Newtown that will benefit from a New Milford theater fundraiser. Newtown residents can also consider nearby activities like a birding talk in Southbury, a neighborhood meeting in Waterbury, and a Litchfield church tag sale, all scheduled in the coming weeks.
   

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What your neighbors are talking about on social media

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🗞 Nearby News

Bethel

  • Bethel football opens season with 34-14 win over Bassick in Bridgeport program's SWC debut (newstimes.com)

Brookfield

  • Connecticut Natural Medicine Doctor Charged With Assaulting Underage Patient, Giving Them Meth – WENG 98.1FM, 107.5 FM & 1530 AM (wengradio.com)
  • Doctor arrested on sexual assault charge in Brookfield (newportdispatch.com)
  • Ethanol drinking involves astrocytes in male Wistar rats (nih.gov)

Monroe

  • Connecticut Warns Consumers Not to Eat Phire in the Hole Hot Sauces Over Botulism Risk — and the Company Has Refused to Recall (lexblog.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: Dam! (Thank you George G. for sending it in!)
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