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Your 2025 Local Holiday Tree Guide

🎄 Start a New Holiday Tradition! There’s something extra special about kicking off the holiday season with a fresh-cut Christmas tree. 🎄 In our family, we recently started a new tradition — cutting down our own tree the day after Thanksgiving. It’s become one of our...

Community Support

Local Food Banks With grocery prices continuing to rise and many families currently without SNAP benefits, food insecurity has become a growing concern in our community. Thankfully, several incredible organizations in and around Newtown are working every day to make...

Think Tick Season is Over? Here’s Why It’s Not

Just when you thought you could put away the bug spray and stop doing daily tick checks, it turns out that tick season doesn’t actually end when the weather gets cooler. With rising temperatures extending warm weather well into fall, ticks are staying active...

Back to School Lunchbox Inspiration from the Lunch Box Dad

Anyone else dreading packing a lunch again as we head back to school? (Or if you’re homeschooling, making and serving yet another meal at home?) For inspiration, we turned Beau Coffron, the dad of three behind the @lunchboxdad Instagram account and lunchboxdad.com....

3 Strategies for Gifting Money to Your Children

This is the second post in a 3-part series in partnership with Bridget Wyatt and Lindsay Sabel of Merrill Lynch Wealth Management.  Now that you’ve achieved financial security for your family, you might be asking yourself, What’s the smartest way to share...

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