More Trees, Nicer Streets – Tuesday, April 11, 7 p.m. Come to learn how you can help efforts to plant more trees in Middletown and to make our streets more pedestrian- and bicycle-friendly. Main speakers are Jane Harris on behalf of Middletown’s Urban Forestry Commission and John Hall on behalf of the Complete Streets Committee. Co-sponsored by the Rockfall Foundation. Location: the deKoven House, 27 Washington Street. Click here to read more.
Upcoming Sunday Morning Hikes Eco-therapist Beth Lapin invites you to join her and others on Sunday, March 5, 10 a.m. at Long Hill Estate, or on Sunday, April 2, 10 a.m. at the Hubbard Brook Preserve. Both hikes are about 1.5 hours long on mostly level ground. For details and directions, click here. Film – The Slow Walk Home Wesleyan University’s Center for Community Partnership (in partnership with the Jonah Center and the Complete Streets Committee) invites the public to a screening of “The Slow Walk Home” that dramatizes the benefits of children walking to and from school. Date: Tuesday, April 4, 5:30 p.m. at the Ring Family Performing Arts Center (accessed from Washington Terrace, High St. or Wyllys Ave.) on the Center for the Arts campus. Free and open to the public.