Oxford BSA Troop 1 will offer their annual Easter Flower Sale and Food Drive from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, March 29 and from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, March 30 at Fritz’s Snack Bar at 72 Oxford Rd. in Oxford. Scouts will be selling a variety of flowers including tulips, hydrangeas, daffodils and many more varieties. Prices start at $6. All proceeds go to support the scouts and their activities and events. The scouts will collect non-perishable food items and toiletries to help benefit those in need and will be donated to the Seymour Oxford Food Bank. Suggested items are oatmeal, peanut butter, jam or jellies, canned food, pasta, flour, sugar, toothpaste, shampoo, bar soap and disposable razors.

SOUTHBURY — Alliance Française hosted a barn dance on Sunday, March 10 to promote the French language. The dance was accompanied by the tunes of Auvergne and Brittany in France and those of La Belle Province, Québec, which they consider France’s daughter in North America. The folk music was provided by Vermont’s Rachel Bell on accordion and Becky Tracy on fiddle. Members of Northwest Connecticut’s chapter of the Alliance Française came together on a rainy Sunday afternoon to kick up their heels to celebrate a member’s newly built barn in Southbury.

SOUTHBURY — Sustainable Southbury is partnering with local retailers in Southbury on their “Refill Not Landfill” campaign. The goal is to reduce the waste created by single-use drink cups. In the U.S. alone, 50 billion coffee cups are disposed of annually. These cups are lined with plastic, must be disposed of as trash, and can last up to 20 years in the environment. Used plastic cups are not recycled into new plastic cups, and last 450 years in the environment.

WOODBURY — The Unified Program at Nonnewaug High School has officially been added to the Unified Champion School registry of Special Olympics North America. The school is proud of their unified advisors, teachers Conor Gereg and John Dominello, and the many student-athletes of all abilities who make this program an integral part of the Region 14 community. With sports as the foundation, at the core of every Unified Champion School are unified sports, inclusive youth leadership, and whole school engagement.

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The work of art and photography students of OLLI (Osher Lifelong Learning Institute) at UConn will be on display at the Middlebury Library from Monday, April 1 through Tuesday, April 30 in the main lobby at 30 Crest Rd. The exhibit will be on view during regular library hours which are from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday; from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday, and from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. OLLI at UConn is a member-driven lifelong learning program based at the UConn Waterbury campus offering courses, lectures, and special events for people 50+ who want to eng…

WOODBURY — The Woodbury Public Library will host Dr. Maria Souza Hogan and Bernardo de Castro at 2 p.m. Saturday, April 13, at 269 Main St. S. Dr. Hogan, a world language teacher at Litchfield High School and the author of her recently published memoir “Samba of Survival: My Light Within,” will discuss her book and the lifelong effects of emigrating from Brazil. Mr. de Castro, of Woodbury, who also hails from Brazil and works as a public school science teacher, will join her in this conversation about their heritage, their journeys to the U.S., and their experiences of their native and…