Cell Phone Tower Meeting December 9 at Kellogg School

If you click on the attached notice you can read the details

FVCT's Fall Production

On Saturday, December 5, at 7 PM at Housatonic Valley Regional High School. Admission free, but donations welcome.

TOWN MEETING TONIGHT - NOV 24 - 7 PM

Special Town Meeting @ Town Hall. "To see what action the Town will take to advise the Selectmen regarding a proposed lease and agreement with the Falls Village Children’s Theater Company." Copies of the proposed lease and agreement are on file with the Town Clerk

Tree Lighting - December 6

Hometown Holiday Shopping - December 3

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Searching for the Perfect Town X-mas Tree

The Rec Commission (aka The Town of Falls Village) is looking for that special tree that will stand in the Town Square as the official Falls Village 2009 Christmas Tree. It should be no more than 20 feet. The Rec Commision has scheduled the Tree Lighting for Sunday, December 6th at 4:30pm so the tree would be needed in time for it to be put up and lit before then.

If anyone has such a tree and is willing to part with it, contact Betsy Howie by email at Tatiferous@comcast.net

Scenes From A Scarecrow Contest '09

Hometown Halloween

Rain Delay: Pancake Breakfast, Scarecrow Contest & Hoedown Postponed Until Sunday, October 25

Everyday Heros

I was reluctant to call 911, because I did not want to trouble the men and women who volunteer for our fire and ambulance department. But after the plug-in carbon monoxide alarm I had just bought at Lindell's started chirping (after the other one in my house was chirping and I could not interpret whether that meant the battery was dying, the alarm way dying, or I was on my way to dying). So within five minutes, the good men and women of the Falls Village Volunteer Fire and Ambulance Department were at my house, and they knew right away that my plug in alarm needed to have a battery in it too as a back up and that was why I heard chirping. (If only I had read the 20 page instruction manual before plugging it in.) Oy vey, as my grandmother used to say. I am so embarrassed to have wasted our volunteers' time. But I am comforted to know that my neighbors are ready to be my heros if one day I truly need them.

Words & Music Library Benefit at Music Mountain on Sunday, Oct. 18 @ 2 pm

When I heard that Betsy Howie and Lonnie Carter were going to share the Music Mountain stage on Sunday, October 18, and read 84 Charing Cross Road as a benefit for the library I immediately thought of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. Why? Because Howie and Carter were once a couple and just like the Burtons, who performed in Private Lives after they split, it's kind of fun to watch a play when there's an added subtext. Besides, as everyone in town knows, Betsy and Lonnie are gifted and generous artists and the reading should be a once in a lifetime theatrical experience.

Here's the Hunt Library's press release on the event, which includes great local music too:

Come remember or learn what it was like to write letters and listen to great music!

84, CHARING CROSS ROAD will be read by Betsy Howie & Lonnie Carter as a benefit for the David M. Hunt Library on Sunday, October 18, at 2 p.m. at Music Mountain. 84 records a correspondence and a love story of 20 years in funny, warm and moving letters between a New York City book lover and her favorite London bookshop. It was supposedly the inspiration for the best seller The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society.

Joshua Stone will direct talented volunteers from the HVRHS Jazz Band and Sweethearts in great s-w-i-n-g-i-n-g songs: Blue Moon, Satin Doll, Take Five, Mr. Sandman, Something's Gotta Give, Where the Boys Are, Jump, Jive & Wail, and more!

You will hear Joshua Stone on piano and Tom Krupa, HVRHS Musical Director, on trumpet. Tom Krupa will direct the HVRHS Jazz Combo--Kellogg’s own: Jacob Horowitz, Piano; Van Daalhuyzen, Bass; Ben Paley, Guitar; Dylan Vadakin, Drums; Ben Finkelstein, Trumpet. Joshua Stone will direct several "Ensembles à la McGuire Sisters" and Alicia Simonetti-Schpurr, HVRHS Night Choir Director, will direct the Chorus--Meghan Brown, Shyla Gregory, Danielle Kearns, Samantha McKenzie, Kayla Robinson, Becky Sawicki, Cornelia Smith, Genevieve Terrall, Cassie Worthington, Ellie Yahn


And a special bonus performance: Three Generations of Falls Village Sinclairs--Mary Lu Sinclair and Laura, Lusanna & Kneeland Munson--will sing Que Sera, Sera!




Hunt Library’s 12th Annual Words & Music*

Sunday, October 18 at 2:00 pm at Music Mountain

$15/$18 @ the door
Teenagers: $10, Children 12 & under: $5

* All proceeds help pay for the operation (buying books, DVDs, computers, salaries) of our wonderful library and staff!

"Chairish the Arts" Auction at Mohawk Mountain on Saturday, October 17

You can support arts education in our region--and the work of the Northwest Connecticut Arts Council which is run by Falls Village resident Amy Wynn--at a live and silent auction of one-of-a-kind chairs at the lodge at Mohawk Mountain.
SIlent Auction 2 - 4:30 PM; Live auction at 4:30 PM
Adults: $15.00 or $25.00 (beer/wine)
Children 12 and up: $5.00
Children 12 and under: Free
For more information Click Here

You Can Still Enter the Scarecrow Contest

Click on the images to read the details. Registration and hay & crossbar pickup will be October 10 at 103 Main Street from 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM. Or contact Denise Cohn (824-4303) or Dan Shaw (824-5582) to arrange to pick up supplies at another time.

Get Jazzed to Support the 8th Grade Class Trip

Renowned trumpeter and Summit Records recording artist Louise Baranger will perform with her quartet at Music Mountain in Falls Village, CT on October 3rd at 7:00 PM to benefit the Kellogg School 8th grade. Ms. Baranger has an extensive resume, including performing with Harry James, John Pizzarelli, Clark Terry and Dionne Warwick. She has worked for television and on Broadway and has recorded with the Stan Kenton Alumni Tribute Orchestra, Holly Near, and Joe Cocker among others. Tickets are $25.

Music Mountain is home to the country’s oldest chamber music festival and to Gordon Hall, a venue famous for its acoustic excellence. The grounds are perfect for a pre-concert picnic in the idyllic hills of Northwestern Connecticut.

The concert is to help cover costs of the Lee H. Kellogg School eighth grade class trip to Quebec in the spring.

Seating is limited and this show is expected to be sold out. To purchase tickets in advance contact Denise Cohn at 860-824-8025. Mastercard and Visa accepted. Tickets will also be sold at the door for any remaining seats. Visit the Trumpet Blues wesite for information on Louise Baranger and her tribute to the life and music of Harry

The Library's Not-So-Silent Auction

If you would like to see pictures of Saturday night's lively cocktail party benefit for the David M. Hunt Library at the old Town Hall, click here to see the photos on Rural Intelligence.

Town Clerk Mary Palmer with actress and author Betsy Howie

Support The Library Saturday Night!

There's a new spin on this year's Silent Auction. It's being held in the loft-like old Town Hall space on Main Street.


The D.M. Hunt Library will hold its 8th Annual Auction in the Village on Saturday, Sept 26. The event features both silent and live auctions. Fine wine, beer, and the library’s own special Green Man Grog will be served. Food catered by Freund’s Farm Market & Bakery in East Canaan. Magician Sandy Rhoades will perform. Mary Palmer will conduct the live auction. Tickets cost $25 and are tax-deductible.

This year’s auction will take place at The Old Town Hall on Main Street, a short walk from the library. This venue puts a fresh face on this favorite annual event while providing a more spacious layout in a historic building and wheelchair accessibility.

The silent auction, which opens at 5pm and ends at 6:30pm, features local food, goods, and services as well as tickets to museums and performance events. Many of these items are bundled together as gift baskets with specially chosen books.

Featured live auction items include a private screening event at The Movie House in Millerton, NY, a cocktail party for 20 at the home of Bunny Williams and John Rosselli, a flight in Bob Giumarro’s Piper Archer, and tickets to Lime Rock Race Park with an opportunity for “hot laps” around the track in a pace car.

Auction in the Village is an annual fund raiser to benefit the 120-year-old David M. Hunt Memorial Library and helps raise up to 20% of the library’s annual operating budget.

A second part of the library’s fund raising season, Words & Music, takes place at Music Mountain at 2pm on Sunday, October 18. This performance based event will feature a live reading of the play “84, Charing Cross Road” by James Roose-Evans based on the novel by Helene Hanff. Featuring Betsy Howie and Lonnie Carter; Music Director Joshua Stone. Tickets $15 advance; $18 door, tax-deductible donation.

Both events have been made possible by generous support from underwriter Century Aggregates and sponsored by Rural Intelligence, Salisbury Bank, Torrington Savings Bank, Elyse Harney Real Estate and The National Iron Bank.

8th Annual Auction in the Village
To Benefit the David M. Hunt Memorial Library in Falls Village
5pm to 8pm, Saturday, September 26, 2009
The Old Town Hall – 107 Main Street, Falls Village, CT 06031
Tickets $25 / Information: 824-7424 / Wheelchair accessible

Dod Adoption Days Redux

New School Year! New Classes at FVCT!

The Falls Village Children's Theater is expanding its offerings this year by adding new instructors and a collaboration with the esteemed Shakespeare & Company from Lenox, MA. Click on the image to read all about it.

Dog Adoption Days: Sept 5 - 7

What's Cooking on Undermountain Road?

Winterhouse, the design firm run by William Drenttel and Jessica Helfand from their home on Undermountain Road, is behind the Pizza Farm in North Canaan this Saturday. Learn more here

The Wassaic Project is A Must-See Happening

The Wassaic Project has got to be seen to be believed. The tiny hamlet of Wassaic (just south of the Metro-North station) has been transformed into an avant garde village with site-specific installations in an old cattle-auction barn; paintings, photographs, video, and sculpture fill seven-floors of a partially-restored granary. This weekend, hundreds of young artists are camping on nearby fields and there will be music and performances all day and night. It’s an authentic art-world happening.

The FVCT Returns to Housy

First Saturday Farmers Market

 Includes local crafts, maple syrup, vegetables in season,
preserves, and sometimes more.
 The first Saturday of each month June through October on the
green in downtown Falls Village at the corner of Main and
Railroad streets.
 Open 9 a.m. to noon
 Local gardeners sell your extra produce. We are also looking for
jams, jellies, pickles, or any homemade or handmade products.
 A small fee will be charged for space to benefit the Falls Village
Volunteer Fire Department.
 Don’t have time to sell your stuff: Fire Department members will
sell it for you for a percentage.
 All donations of produce and crafts will be readily accepted
 Sponsored by the Falls Village Volunteer Fire Department.
 Contact Kent Allyn at 860-824-5960.

Visit Sweet William's in Salisbury

It's certainly bittersweet that Jason Young has moved his retail bakery to Salisbury, but it is comforting to know that Falls Village is part of the DNA forever of Sweet William's Bakery. Read more at Rural Intelligence.com

The FVCT Goes to Cornwall

The Falls Village Children’s Theater presents:

Disney’s The Aristocats.

Performed by 18 children ages 5-8.
Absolutely adorable!

Friday, July 24th, 6:30pm
Cornwall Consolidated School
5 Cream Hill Road, West Cornwall, CT
Directed and Choreographed by Lanny Mitchell
Donations gratefully accepted at the door.
All proceeds benefit the Falls Village Children's Theater Company, a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) corporation.

Tradition at the Hunt Library

Falls Village Children's Theater Is Back Onstage--in Cornwall!

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In Memoriam: Kaelan Alexander Palmer Paton

A memorial service for Kaelan Alexander Palmer Paton, who lost his life heroically saving the lives of others in the Housatonic River last month, will be held at the Sharon Center School on Sunday, July 12, at 1 PM.

Everyone's Invited to Graduation June 15

Falls Village is always at its best for 8th grade graduation. There's the slide show documenting the shared childhoods of the class who've been together since kindergarten, the flowers from local gardens decorating the stage, and a sense that a small neighborhood school provides kids with not only a good education but also a strong sense of themselves.

Spring Fling in the Village: June 6 - 7

Has Falls Village ever been this busy?

All events on Saturday June 6th, some continuing on June 7th as noted.

Music on the Mountain – Concert featuring middle school, high school and grads from Region One towns performing classical, jazz and chamber works. Tickets available at the door. Call HYSB 824-4720 for information. Gordon Hall at Music Mountain 2PM

Historic Beebe Hill One Room School House open for viewing 10AM to Noon

Congregational Church Annual Tag Sale, Bake Sale and Luncheon!
Come browse the eclectic offerings, and stay for lunch! 9 AM to 2PM


FOLKS/Falls Village Day Care Giant Tag Sale at Lee H. Kellogg School
Early birds 7AM – 9AM for $5 9AM – 4PM
Continues on Sunday 9AM -3PM. Most items 50% off. ‘Stuff a bag’ for $2.50 end of sale

Outside at the DM Hunt Library: Hunt’s Homegrown Plant Sale
Perennials, Annuals, Herbs, Vegetables, Trees and More
8AM to 4PM, Continues on Sunday 9AM to 1PM

Under the tent at the DM Hunt Library: Annual Used Book Sale
Hardcover to paper backs, including rare and collectible, audio and CD books
9AM to 4PM, Continues on Sunday 10AM to 1PM

Upstairs at the DM Hunt Library: Monthly Book Sale
New books at great discounts
10AM to 1PM

Enjoy Litchfield County’s best latte at the Toymaker Café
Open Weekends 7AM to 3ish

Fortify yourself with wonderful cookies at Sweet Williams bakery
Saturday 10AM to 3PM

Stop by the future Falls Village Community and Cultural Center, and view the children’s art show ‘My Impressions of Falls Village’ 10AM to 3PM

Farmers Market at the Town Green
9AM to Noon First produce of the season, all locally grown!

Antique Tool Show, Swap and Sale
At the Falls Village-Canann Historical Society Depot Museum
Refreshments available too! 9AM to 3PM

Morris Dancers Grand Processional
Main Street in front of Town Hall
Time 6:30 PM

Cheer on the Relay for Life Teams who are helping to raise funds and awareness for the fight against cancer! Event starts at 4PM Saturday and ends at 10AM on Sunday at the HVHRS track field. Last minute participants very welcome!

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All events on Saturday June 6th, some continuing on June 7th as noted.

Summer Camp Alternative Close to Home

Dominic Caiati will be offering two art programs this summer at Kellogg. Click on the image to read more clearly.

The Lakeville Journal Regrets . . .

Lakeville Journal publisher Janet Manko insists that the paper meant no disrespect by omitting the page about Falls Village in this week's Town & Villages supplement. It was a printer's error and it will be in next week's paper. Click on the image to see what the LJ meant to print

Memorial Day 2009

Has the weather ever been more perfect for a Memorial Day Parade? The highlight of the day was seeing the Fire Department's brand new state-of-the-art truck which will allow our volunteer force to protect us more efficiently and effectively. The Fire Department served up cookies and brownies and lemonade and the Falls Village Community and Cultural Center had fresh popcorn and an art project for the kids. The art show on the walls of the FVCCC was proof that the children who live in Falls Village cherish its special attributes as they demonstrated in works on paper called "My Falls Village."