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…

STATE – Connecticut State Police responded to nearly 500 accidents, two of which were fatal, during the four-day New Year’s holiday. Police on Tuesday announced that they responded to 494 accidents during the enforcement period that started at 12:01 a.m….

WATERBURY – The city’s two golf courses should shortly have permanent golf pros picked. Mark Lombardo, supervisor for parks and golf courses, told the Board of Parks Commissioners Tuesday he’d recently advertised the jobs. The seven-year contracts of the last…

WATERBURY – Waterbury will get a winter festival if William DeMaida has anything to say about it. DeMaida, a member of the city’s Board of Parks Commissioners, got approval Tuesday to lead an ad hoc committee planning a winter festival….

TORRINGTON — Ousted Torrington Middle School Principal Valerie Bruneau filed a lawsuit in Torrington Superior Court on Tuesday against the city’s Board of Education and Superintendent Denise L. Clemons. Bruneau, who was hired in May and fired in September of last…

LITCHFIELD — Because of the sub-zero temperatures and snow forecast for Thursday, Louis The Coin Colavecchio’s appearance at the Litchfield-Morris Rotary Club has been postponed. A new date will be set by the end of the month. Related

HARTFORD – Gov. Dannel P. Malloy is continuing the state’s Severe Cold Weather Protocol due to continuing forecasts of frigid temperatures with negative wind chills. The protocol directs several state agencies to coordinate with the statewide 211 info-line operated by…

HARTFORD – State Comptroller Kevin Lembo is projecting a $224 million budget gap for the current 2018 fiscal year. The January estimate from the comptroller’s office is $3.5 million from the Malloy administration’s latest projection from Dec. 20. Gov. Dannel…

WATERBURY – A brazen morning shooting outside of Waterbury Superior Court has left a man with a gunshot wound to the leg and has closed a portion of State Street. Multiple pops of gunfire were heard at about 11:15 a.m….

HARTFORD — Waterbury Mayor Neil M. O’Leary took over Monday as the president of the Connecticut Conference of Municipalities, a statewide association representing 166 of the state’s 169 towns and cities. O’Leary has been mayor of the state’s fifth largest city since December 2011….

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Bone-chilling cold gripped much of the U.S. as 2018 began, breaking century-old records and leading to several deaths that authorities attributed to exposure to the dangerously low temperatures. The National Weather Service issued wind chill advisories and…

WATERBURY – The driver of a dump truck that hit and killed a 69-year-old grandmother in Southbury will be sentenced to five years in prison as part of a plea deal hashed out in Waterbury Superior Court, according to recently…

LITCHFIELD – State and local fire investigators are investigating the cause of a blaze at a group home in the Northfield section Sunday night. Litchfield Fire Marshal Samuel Kinkade said he is “still trying to put the pieces together” to…

TORRINGTON – A civil case against her now over, Elizabeth Waterbury will return to Superior Court Jan. 11 where criminal charges alleging she caused a fatal crash in Litchfield 15 months ago will move toward trial or end with a…

WATERBURY – A suspected whipping post removed from the City Green in July following public outcry is sitting in storage at the Mattatuck Museum. It will be several months, at least, before the museum has finished its research and is…