TORRINGTON — Woodridge Lake Sewer District filed its application to hook up to Torrington sewer district on Tuesday, according to the mayor’s office. More than a year and a half since it was first proposed, the sewer district filed the…

WINSTED – Independent thinking is the goal in education today, and that mission is clearly evident in the mathematics classes offered at Northwestern Regional School No. 7. “We take a lot of pride in our program,” said George Mitesser, chairman…

NAUGATUCK – Registered sex offenders will no longer be allowed on most borough-owned property. The Board of Mayor and Burgesses unanimously passed an ordinance Tuesday that bans any person convicted of a sexual offense from frequenting borough-owned parks, schools, playgrounds,…

WOODBURY – First Selectman William J. Butterly said he’s fed up with the state Department of Transportation, which has taken years to deliver on requested safety measures but recently told the Public Works director to remove flags near crosswalk meant…

Thursday’s forecast winter storm will serve as the appetizer for another blast of Arctic cold and potentially damaging winds on Friday and Saturday. John J. Bagioni, a meteorologist with Fax-Alert Weather Service in Burlington, said the bitterly cold temperatures and…

HARTFORD – The state comptroller’s office on Tuesday slightly widened its estimate of the deficit for the current 2018 fiscal year to $224 million. State Comptroller Kevin Lembo also reported Tuesday the 2017 fiscal year ended nearly $22.7 million in…

HARTFORD – A woman fighting breast cancer got married at a hospital 18 hours before she died. Heather Mosher was dressed in her wedding gown and lying in bed wearing an oxygen mask as she and David Mosher said “I…

TORRINGTON – Little Iyla Pietrafesa couldn’t come soon enough, but her entrance was still a tad late for the first day of 2018. There were no babies born on New Year’s Day at Charlotte Hungerford Hospital, but the healthy little…

BEACON FALLS Region 16 Superintendent of Schools Michael Yamin is looking to hire a science teacher for the elementary schools next year, a move that may become more common as districts strive to meet the new Next Generation Science Standards….

The icy road conditions over the long holiday weekend led to several accidents on I-84. In Southbury, a Middlebury man veered off the left shoulder of Interstate 84 east in his GMC Acadia amid icy conditions Saturday, and struck a rock…

WINSTED – The Board of Selectmen is gearing up for another budget season. The board approved a schedule on Tuesday night for preparing the spending plan for the 2018-19 fiscal year, which begins on July 1. By March 15, the…

WATERBURY – The severe cold weather that had hovered over the region for most of the holiday break impacted temperatures in some of the city’s public school buildings when classes resumed across the city for the first school day of…

MIDDLEBURY – U.S. Attorney John H. Durham announced the arrest of a Waterbury man on federal charges stemming from two armed robberies in Middlebury last month. Zachary Provost, 32, allegedly robbed the Mobil gas station, 750 Straits Turnpike and the…

WATERBURY – A morning shooting Tuesday outside of Waterbury Superior Court left a man with a gunshot wound to the leg, which authorities suspect is tied to escalating violence between groups in the city. Multiple pops of gunfire were heard…

SOUTHBURY – Calvary Chapel opened a storefront in Bennett Square on Main Street South 20 years ago to host services for its 30 members. Since then, the church has grown to 350 members, leases seven storefronts and has two services…

WATERBURY – The Board of Parks Commissioners on Tuesday turned down two competing proposals to rename the North End Recreation Center for upstanding African American men whose lives were cut short. The seven-member board unanimously voted to instead ask both…

TORRINGTON – A Superior Court judge on Tuesday ordered a city man with an extensive history of drug convictions held on $150,000 bond. In doing so, Judge Paul Matasavage rejected public defender James Longwell’s bid to have Damon Spencer, 41,…

WATERBURY For more than a century, Joseph P. Nolan’s family has used Old Saint Joseph Cemetery for its burial grounds, including for several generations of veterans. That’s one of the reasons it’s so distressing, he said, to see the ragged…

KENT Tim Groski has delivered much more than packages during his years in Kent. The United Parcel Service driver retired Friday after 40 years of service, 33 of them in Kent. The familiar brown truck, which wends its way along…

BURLINGTON – State police arrested a Burlington man on drug and weapons charges following a seven-month undercover investigation by state and Bristol police. Gregory J. Hebert, 45, of 51 Main St., was arrested on Dec. 27 and will be arraigned…