SOUTHBURY — Residents in the South Britain section of town may have experienced power outages Monday evening, and the first selectman’s office issued an alert that the outages should last about one hour around 5 p.m. “Power needs to be…

CHESHIRE – Last year, Katrina Ljunggren spent most of her days at Boston Children’s Hospital. This year, the 13-year-old is finally able to enjoy the perks of being a “normal” teenager. Katrina was born in 2004 with Hypoplastic Left Heart…

WATERBURY – The city, along with much of the state, woke up to a white Christmas this morning. As of 9:30 a.m., the snow had stopped falling in downtown Waterbury. There was about an inch of wet, heavy snow. There…

TAUNTON, Mass. (AP) — Weather forecasters have issued winter storm warnings for much of New England. The National Weather Service says that up to 10 inches of snow are possible in portions of northern and western Massachusetts and Connecticut. Forecasters…

TORRINGTON — Stuffed from a Christmas Eve dinner that included a traditional lasagna dinner for the Marciano family, there was still a second tray untouched. The extra lasagna wasn’t for any of the dinner guests sitting around the table. For…

Every year, one of the editors here points out – correctly – the inevitable bad writing of a story that starts out “Christmas came early for …” I know one of those once surfaced in September, and we may have…

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut is joining a secure, nationwide, wireless, mobile broadband network that will help Connecticut first responders during emergency and disaster response situations. Democratic Gov. Dannel P. Malloy was advised by a working group to opt into…

SALISBURY – As Eileen Mulligan looked out her office window onto the Noble Horizons’ campus recently, she reflected on her tenure at the retirement village. She has much to remember. The facility’s only executive director throughout its existence, Mulligan will…

If you live in the Northeast or Midwest, you’re not dreaming: It’s going to be a white Christmas. But the trade-off is hazardous driving conditions across New England. The National Weather Service forecasts snow in the Rocky Mountains and Pacific…

NEW BRITAIN — A 31-year-old citizen of Uzbekistan who was living in New Britain was arrested on Friday on immigration offenses stemming for lying about trips to Turkey and his brother, a member of a military group with ties to…

WATERBURY – On a Tuesday night less than a week after the Thanksgiving holiday, Steve Strand, the school district’s director of teaching and learning, observed a scene not unfamiliar in public school classrooms. Strand was standings in the media center…

BERLIN, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut State Police are seeking witnesses to an early Christmas Eve crash on Route 9 in Berlin, where an Arizona man was struck and injured by a car as he stood outside his vehicle following an…

WATERBURY – Children, Michael Rinaldi said, notice everything. Your wedding ring. The wart on your thumb. The flecks of black and gray in your eyebrows. Rinaldi, purveyor of Santa Claus suits for half a century, knows what it takes to…

WATERBURY – The Waterbury Knights Cheer program recently won first place in the American Youth Cheer National Championships in Florida. It was the second year in a row and the fourth time in nine years the squad came home with…

BETHLEHEM – Tradition continues this year as the small post office here off Main Street becomes a holiday card hub for people flocking for a “Christmas Town” stamp on their cards and parcels. Patrons come from around the corner and…

CHESHIRE – Town officials recently took a moment to recognize the generous yearly donations residents Donald and Jenifer Walsh made to programs and charities. The couple are the founders of Cheshire’s Lights of Hope, a nonprofit organization that raises money…

TORRINGTON – The city’s longtime assessor announced she will be retiring in March 2018, but she’s not done working yet. Donna Patchen’s last day will be March 5 to give the city enough time to find a replacement. She has…

The Baudinet quintuplets, born after a high-risk pregnancy last December to Watertown native Michael Baudinet and his wife Margaret, are busy and healthy and fighting for dog food just outside of Richmond. “Their favorite thing to do is to try…

THOMASTON – The Town Center Plan Committee has completed its plan to help revitalize the downtown area over the next five to 10 years. “This town center plan is an overall streetscape plan for the downtown district,” said Jeremy Leifert,…

LITCHFIELD – The Democratic Town Committee this week is expected to recommend to the Board of Selectmen a candidate for the selectman’s seat that was held by the late Diane Knox. Knox, a Democrat and selectman for eight years, died…