Warren Connecticut

The Warren Volunteer Fire Company will hold it’s 46th Annual Fall Festival on October 6th and 7th at the Warren Woods town recreation area on Brick School Road off Route 45, follow the signs from Route 202. The country extravaganza will take place from 10am to dusk each day, rain or shine. The festival offers visitors the opportunity to enjoy the beauty of the fall foliage in the Northwest Hills as well as some traditional country fun and entertainment.

Saturday will feature a garden tractor pull, lumberjack competition and the Country Travelers, a country western band. The day will also feature the USA Martial Arts demonstration team.

Sunday will include Northernbound, a blue grass band, an antique tractor pull, a lumberjack exhibition and the Norwestones, Litchfield County’s own barbershop chorus. Both days will feature home-style apple pies, country pressed cider, pumpkins, and our famous open-pit charcoal roast beef sandwiches and many other mouth-watering delights. For the young at heart there will be a petting zoo, children’s carnival games, demonstrations by the Wamogo FFA, a children’s moonwalk (Bounce House) and fire truck rides. As always the Country Store will be open and many artisans and vendors will be on hand.

Admission is $4.00, children 12 and under will be admitted free. A 2-day pass is available for $6.00.

A new session starting in September.

Classes on Wednesday, 7 PM and Saturday at 7 AM at Warren Town Hall.
If you have wanted to try the class, now is the time. The Kids are back in school. A great opportunity to make that commitment to an exercise program.

The class consists of interval training. What’s that? Strength training and cardio segments. The class is easily modified to your fitness level. The equipment we use is hand weights, resistance bands, jump rope and a stability ball.

Session will run from September to the end of November. Guys are welcome too.

Dates of the classes: September 12,19,26,29 - October 3,6,10,13,17,20,24 - November 7, 10, 14

Fee for all classes is $130.

Call Nancy @ 860-354-2107 for further  information.

There will be a public hearing at the Town Hall on Friday, September 21, 2007 at 7:00 PM. Selectmen, members of the building committee and representatives from Ames and Whitaker architectural firm will be present to review plans and answer any questions Warren residents may have. An informational pamphlet has been mailed to all persons on the tax rolls. Copies of the pamphlet are available at the Town Hall. A referendum is planned for later in the year on this project. All are encouraged to attend. Additional information also is available by calling the Selectman’s Office (860) 868-9030.

This summer was a busy one for the library! Thanks to all who visited the library and supported our new schedule.

We will be starting our Fall schedule with the Future Readers Story hour on Thursday, September 13th at 10 AM. The subject of our first story hour is “Silly Squirrels”. Come hear some stories, make a squirrel craft and enjoy a special snack. Future Readers story hour is for pre-kindergarten children just discovering and learning the fun of books.

On September 29th we will be having an “open house” at the library to come and meet our new Children’s Librarian, Morinda Carlsson. Warren’s Public Library is always an Open house, but on that day Morinda will be here to meet parents. It will also be a time to come in and familiarize yourself with your town library, if you have not been in to visit in a while. Come and meet our staff and check out our facilities. Refreshments will be served. We look forward to meeting you. (It is also “Banned Books Week”. Lists and banned books will be available.)

Warren certainly has Junior Readers they can be proud of! The summer reading program, “Get A Clue”, was very successful. Over thirty children signed up for the program. We had fun learning about fingerprints, going on a micro-hike at Warren Woods(they found seven four leaf clovers!), learning about letterboxing and having a visit from real detective, Caroline Keith from Warren. More importantly our Summer Readers read over 1,300 books! Congratulations to you all.

Did you know - that the library can get books for you through the interlibrary loan service? That we have a copier available at a very nominal fee? That we have wi-fi service available? That we have a good selection of best sellers, current DVD’s and books on CD and tape? Stop by and visit us at our open house and learn all we have to offer.