CHESHIRE – Superintendent of Schools Jeffrey Solan is recommending a $72.5 million operating budget for the 2018-19 fiscal year, an increase of 3.4 percent, or $2.3 million, over the current budget. “We’re well with the range of what we’ve seen…

WATERTOWN – Town Council members are still waiting for Watertown Town Attorney Paul Jessell to issue an opinion as to whether it should launch an investigation into Watertown Police officer helping Puerto Rico in disaster relief efforts. was paid and…

PLYMOUTH – Town council members on Tuesday night voted to enter into a contract with the state Department of Economic and Community Development assistance program to receive the $750,000 grant that will be used to remediate the former Mayfair Garage…

TORRINGTON – The space formerly home to Backstage is drawing some interest one day after being entered as a real estate listing. The closing of the downtown bar and restaurant adjacent to the Warner Theatre was abruptly announced over the…

FALLS VILLAGE – The Region 1 Board of Education will not plant a tree in honor of former Superintendent Patricia Chamberlain. During a meeting Monday, Cornwall member John Sanders said the Landscape and Arboretum Committee, which oversees the campus tree…

MIDDLETOWN – Gov. Dannel P. Malloy is proposing Connecticut ban bump stocks and other rapid-fire attachments that allow a semi-automatic rifle to mimic a fully automatic weapon. Malloy on Tuesday announced he will ask the legislature in February to outlaw…

WATERBURY “There’s many a slip,” Ede Reynolds said with a laugh Tuesday, “‘twixt the cup and the lip.” She used the ancient phrase, which roughly means that the best of plans can go wrong at the last minute, because they…

WATERTOWN – Public Works officials told members of the Town Council it is a good news/bad news situation regarding the Heminway Pond dam removal project. The good news, Public Works Subcommittee Chairwoman Katherine C. “Kace” Duplissie said at the last…

TORRINGTON – The charges keep coming for a Manchester man accused of breaking into more than 20 Dunkin’ Donuts across the state. New Milford police charged Brett M. Johnson, 32, with burglary and larceny for two break-ins at the Dunkin’…

WATERBURY – In an effort to balance its budget, the state Department of Transportation is threatening substantial cuts to transit services, including the Waterbury branch of Metro-North Railroad. A proposal to mitigate the agency’s budget deficit calls for a reduction…

TORRINGTON – Accused of sexually assaulting his two stepdaughters from 2012 to 2015, Daniel Korn of Litchfield must decide Friday whether to accept an offer that would prevent him from facing a second trial. A mistrial was declared in October…

SOUTHBURY – When developer Kevin Bennett’s first four proposals to build The Meadows apartments in a residential zone at 390 Roxbury Road failed, he filed a fifth one. Bennett withdrew the last plan for two colonial style buildings with three…

WATERBURY – Every year, after large snowstorms, there are complaints about snow-covered sidewalks forcing pedestrians and schoolchildren into hazardous streets. Only one has gotten to city officials since the Jan. 4 snowstorm. School officials called police to complain of snow-covered…

WATERBURY – The idea of a winter festival has begun gaining steam since raised at the Board of Parks Commissioners last week, but the man heading the effort says it will probably won’t come together until next winter. Parks Board…

WATERBURY – Police, including federal authorities, claim a city man conspired with an employee of an urgent care clinic to commit insurance fraud and forge records in order to illegally obtain prescription pain pills. An investigation of an illegally obtained…

TORRINGTON – The city is working to complete an agreement with retired firefighters and police officers over their health insurance plan. Attorneys for both sides met inside the judge’s chambers at Torrington Superior Court on Tuesday, according to Victor M….

FALLS VILLAGE – Region 1 Board of Education members got an update on the career explorations program at Housatonic Valley Regional High School on Monday. Coordinator Mary O’Neill provided a detailed report on the program, which launched in September to…

KENT Three college freshmen will get some help with educational costs, thanks to the Kent Lions Club. Katherine Starr, Trisha Worthington and Nicole You were the recipients of the grants. Starr and Worthington attended a club dinner meeting this past…

WATERTOWN – Betsy O’Connell said she’s just now regained equilibrium after disembarking from a cruise ship that sailed straight through the large winter storm that pummeled the East Coast last week. When Betsy and her husband, Bill O’Connell, of Oakville…

The Connecticut Airport Authority has opted for a hybrid arrangement in which an airport operations company will eventually supply employees for the Waterbury-Oxford, Groton-New London and Hartford-Brainard airports. “Existing staff will all stay in place, and we are going to…