WATERTOWN – Members of local sports groups rallied to raise money to help VFW Post 5157 recoup after a rash of break-ins. Frank Trosky, quartermaster of at the Watertown VFW Post, said there are break-ins at the Thomaston Road building…

TORRINGTON The Torrington Area Health District inspected the establishments listed below between Dec. 18 and Dec. 29. A minimum score of 80 is required to pass. “Pre” means the operation was inspected at its opening, after a change of ownership…

TORRINGTON – The frigid temperatures of late have brought back memories of the early days in Christopher Smedick’s police career. Like all Torrington police rookies more than three decades ago, he was given a walking beat. Smedick recalls the sub-zero…

CHESHIRE – FoodWorks Natural Market will close its doors in Cheshire in the coming months. FoodWorks at 965 South Main Street is closing due to “a lack of business at the location”, store manager Nancy Edman said. Edman said the…

WATERBURY It was a Three Kings Day to remember for some of the city’s most recent arrivals – former Puerto Rico residents who fled the island after Hurricane Maria. Three Kings Day commemorates the arrival of the Wise Men at…

A string of frigid days have left numerous car batteries dead, kept heating oil delivery drivers scrambling, and burst at least one water main in Litchfield County. Just before 3 p.m. Saturday, Shane Campbell, of Torrington towing company Campbell Transport,…

WATERBURY – Thanks to brutally cold temperatures, business for the American Motor Lodge on South Main Street is booming – and much of it is on the city’s dime. Renters who are displaced from their homes due to fires and…

PLYMOUTH – The town’s building committee has voted against expanding the police department to occupy the entire basement of Town Hall. The department, which currently uses 2,600 square feet of the basement, would have expanded to 8,000 square feet with…

NAUGATUCK – Town officials offered praise and a raise to golf professional Bryan Nixon this week. Over the past three years, the Hop Brook Golf Course went from losing money to making a profit, Mayor N. Warren “Pete” Hess said…

WOODBURY – The Region 14 Board of Education Community Relations Committee is hosting another Community Conversation on Jan. 11, where attendees will ponder the question: “Are the facilities and resources in Region 14 appropriate for the current and future learning…

TORRINGTON – Police allege a city man kicked an officer after he was escorted out of a grocery store on Friday. Frank Stephens, 56, of 192 Elm St., was making a scene inside the Price Rite at 695 Main St.,…

In a political version reminiscent of “everybody’s doing it,” one legislator says legal recreational marijuana could mean more green for the state’s hungry coffers. Voters in Maine and neighbor Massachusetts have approved referendums to allow legal recreational marijuana. Vermont and…

WINSTED Ask the volunteers at the RR Model and Hobby Supply shop at Whiting Mills why they are so passionate about building model train sets and they will all give similar answers. They need something to do during retirement. It…

WOODBURY – Developers from Garrett Homes LLC have submitted a new application to build a Dollar General store on Main Street South. A previous application submitted in September 2016 by Sound Garrett LLC was denied by the Inland Wetlands Agency…

HARWINTON – The owner of the Landing Zone Grille rejects the Torrington Area Health District’s assessment that the restaurant violated health and fire codes. “You could eat off the floor,” Joseph F. Furnari said Friday. “I would not ever serve…

NEWS NUGGETS Oxford Oxford’s future bright, first selectman says Oxford’s infrastructure expanded and its revenue grew in 2017 and First Selectman George R. Temple expects the trend to continue into the new year. “We continue to move forward with our…

WATERBURY – The year 2017 was a heartwarming success for the Greater Waterbury Campership Fund, and the nonprofit’s all-volunteer board of directors have their eyes on an even better 2018 campaign. The final donation tally for the year topped out…

NEW YORK (AP) — Jerry Van Dyke, the younger brother of Dick Van Dyke who struggled for decades to achieve his own stardom before clicking as the dim-witted sidekick in television’s “Coach,” died Friday in Arkansas, according to his manager….

WASHINGTON (AP) — Legendary astronaut John Young, who walked on the moon and later commanded the first space shuttle flight, has died, according to a statement from NASA. Young was 87. The space agency said in a statement that Young…

PLYMOUTH — A Connecticut Water crew is repairing a water main break in Terryville that has left 20 customers without water Saturday morning. The water main break happened around 6 a.m. Saturday, according to Connecticut Water spokesman Dan Meany. Crews…