By Kelly Lupton | Wilton Public Library director The Wilton Public Library’s Second-Saturday Writers Group is excited to announce the winner for the 2024 writing contest. This year, our winner was Abigail “Abby” Wiedmeyer. She won a wonderful prize with a lot of tools...
Kendall Public Library hosts a visit with a mini horse, offers a soap-making demonstration
By Charissa Finn | Kendall Public Library director There is always something new at the Kendall Public Library. Denise Murray came and showed us how to make goat milk soap, using goat milk from her own goats. It was very surprising to see how the lye made the...
Senior menus for May 6–10
Kendall, Norwalk and Wilton meal sites Monday, May 6: Pork tips in gravy, roasted potatoes, tomato juice, whole-grain baking powder biscuits with butter, pears, and black bean chocolate cookies Tuesday, May 7: Spaghetti pasta bake with meat, garden salad, garlic...
Norwalk Clovers 4-H learns about fire safety
The Norwalk Clovers 4-H club met at the Norwalk Fire Station for its April meeting. Chief Jim Stoikes gave a presentation on fire prevention and fire safety. We enjoyed seeing and trying on the turnout gear the firefighters wear, learning about the tools firefighters...
Ontario to host program on Water Action Volunteer program
By RACHEL CONNER | Ontario Public Library director Ontario Public Library invites you to hear about “WAVing the Summer Away” from Ben Johnston on Monday, April 29, at 4 p.m. In the Water Action Volunteer program, citizen scientists collect baseline information for...
Norwalk Public Library announces schedule for May
By JESICA HELGREN | Norwalk Public Library director The Norwalk Public Library will host these events: • 4:30 to 6 p.m. Thursday, April 25: Teen craft. Pick up a pin-making kit to take home with you! • 9:30 a.m. Saturday, April 27: Bring what you’re...
Wilton Public Library to offer programs
By KELLY LUPTON | Wilton Public Library director The Wilton Public Library will host the following programs: • 10 a.m. Friday, April 26: Current-events discussion group • 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, May 1: Preschool story hour • 10 a.m. Friday, May 3:...
South Side News for April 25
By MYRNA FAUSKA Last week was a rather quiet one here the valley as we entered the third week of April. The weather fluctuated from early spring to late winter, which kept many of us close to our warm hearths most of the time except for brief forays into town for...
Gjefle: ‘Skunks and Opossums’
By Pastor Michael T. Gjefle Faith Independent Baptist Church, Ontario Genesis 1:24 — “And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.” How do we...
A sign of spring
Daphne Arndt helps work on the foundation plantings Sunday at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Wilton.
