TORRINGTON – The last day of school before Christmas break at Torringford School typically involves singing Christmas carols and having books read aloud to the students, who get to wear their pajamas to school. The annual tradition offered a new…

TORRINGTON When he was a boy, growing up on Brightwood Avenue, Ray Roulin walked to his elementary school. It was a brick building on Main Street and East Elm Street, just a few minutes away from his parents’ home. The…

PROSPECT – The Planning and Zoning Commission unanimously approved a resubdivision of 7 Ridgewood Club Road. The parcel will be split into a 52,000-square-feet lot and a 67,000-square-foot lot for homes. The bigger lot has grading issues, but a driveway…

NAUGATUCK – As the year draws to a close, United Way of Naugatuck and Beacon Falls has raised 63 percent of its goal of $415,000. Although the charity foundation is still shy of its goal, Executive Director Lisa Shappy said…

PROSPECT – The Planning and Zoning Commission Wednesday opted out of a state law that allows temporary health care structures as an accessory use in any single-family residential zone. Chairman Gil Graveline said the law as written has “so many…

WATERBURY – City schools enrolled 45 students evacuated from Puerto Rico over the course of just 15 days this December. The Sept. 20 hurricane that slammed the U.S. island territory sparked an exodus, and many families landed in Waterbury, joining…

TORRINGTON – The Torrington Area Health District inspected the establishments listed below between Dec. 11 and Dec. 15. A minimum score of 80 is required to pass. “Pre” means the operation was inspected at its opening, after a change of…

WATERBURY Once again, Bryan Spiotti’s annual toy drive will be bringing joy to many area kids this holiday season. The Wolcott police officer started on a smaller scale about 20 years back, when he fulfilled a wish lift for a…

WATERBURY – Acres of the city’s old landfill in the North End could sprout solar panels under a proposal being considered by the Waterbury Development Corp. Interim WDC CEO James Nardozzi is proposing the city offer long-term lease on space…

WATERBURY – Authorities have confirmed a human skull found near hunting grounds in Pennsylvania more than two years ago is that of a man who went missing from Waterbury in 2011. Authorities have yet to find the rest of George…

TORRINGTON – Graphic crime scene photos used in the state’s murder trial against Hiral Patel in January will be disclosed to the public. Judge John A. Danaher on Friday granted a Harwinton-based media corporation’s request for access to the photographs,…

WINSTED – Despite active marketing and all back taxes paid, the former home of Laurel Hill Healthcare at 108 E. Lake St. remains vacant. Torrington-based real estate broker Vance Taylor has been trying to find a buyer for the property…

FALLS VILLAGE – Seniors at Housatonic Valley Regional High School got a preview of life beyond this school year during Thursday’s Report to Regional program. The guidance department brings back members of the last graduating class before the holiday break…

MIDDLEBURY – George Frantzis II grew up around the games and rides at Quassy Amusement & Waterpark, which was been in the family since his grandfather bought it with two partners in 1937. He remembers standing on the alley between…

WATERBURY – Residents who addressed the Board of Education on Thursday aired concerns including disparities in student discipline practices, the transition from eighth grade to high school in the city’s pre-K-to-8 schools and special education. Pastor Pamela Hughes, who serves…

Forecasters are reasonably certain of a white Christmas on Monday – and of a couple of wet, slushy days getting there. Another holiday certainty: Stepped up state police patrols targeting drunk drivers. Expected to start Friday afternoon are periods drizzling…

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Dick Clark Productions says it has cut ties with the Miss America Organization over internal emails by pageant senior leadership that ridiculed past winners’ appearance, intelligence and sex lives. The Huffington Post reported Thursday that…

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Former Marine Marco Chavez could not sleep the night before he was set to cross the border and return to the United States, a country he considers home after he was deported to Mexico 15 years…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A private group headed by a county commissioner and fueled by anonymous donations bought two parks from the city of Memphis at little cost this week, allowing for the swift removal of two Confederate statues that…

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — One of two Wisconsin girls who tried to kill a classmate to win favor with a fictional horror character named Slender Man has been sentenced to 25 years in a mental hospital, the maximum punishment possible….