TORRINGTON – Superintendent Denise L. Clemons on Wednesday night warned members of the Board of Education that closing East School for the 2018-19 school year would result in only “minor” savings. The school accounted for just over $3 million in…

TORRINGTON – Parents once again are banding together to raise money to keep the DARE program in the city schools this year. Funding cuts in 2016 forced parents to raise $25,000 last year to help fund the program and the…

TORRINGTON – Changes could be coming to upper Water Street. The former Register Citizen building at 190 Water St. is on the market again, and the Hotchkiss Bros. complex across the street was sold at auction to a Woodbury-based redevelopment…

HARTFORD – The replacement of the Mixmaster interchange of highway bridges in Waterbury is among $4.3 billion in future transportation projects that are being postponed indefinitely. The state Department of Transportation is still going a head with $200 million in…

Despite being included on the governor’s list of projects that are supposed to be postponed indefinitely, the replacement of the Holabird Bridge in Winsted will continue. Gov. Dannel P. Malloy on Wednesday announced that a total of $4.3 billion in…

THOMASTON – Residents on Wednesday night unanimously voted to approve funding for the state-mandated reconstruction of Walnut Hill Road bridge and the purchase of a ladder truck for the volunteer fire department. A total of 76 residents packed into the…

Judith Labrecque of New Hartford has had many friends and relatives in recent years who have required an infusion of someone else’s blood. Both her husband and her sister died of cancer, and she has a friend with liver cancer…

FALLS VILLAGE – The retirement of Housatonic Valley Regional High School head custodian Kevin Whitney has prompted the Region 1 Board of Education to reevaluate the position. During Monday’s meeting, Superintendent Pamela Vogel said she would recommend the job be…

WATERBURY – The lead counsel on a Waterbury lawsuit against opioid drugmakers in state court was named co-lead counsel in nearly identical federal litigation last week. Mayor Neil M O’Leary praised the development as “great news” for the city’s effort…

WATERBURY – A sex offender who served prison time for possessing child porn is under investigation for using his son’s phone to contact middle-school aged girls in Plymouth while asking for nude pictures and sending sexual messages. Michael LaMountain, 30,…

POLICE BLOTTER WATERBURY Waterbury police recently filed the following charges: PAUL COSTA, 31, of 1368 Meriden Road, 12, two counts sale of a hallucinogen or narcotic, possession of a controlled substance other than a narcotic or hallucinogen, or more than…

POLICE BLOTTER TORRINGTON CODY W. O’KELLY, 30, 79 Judson St., Woodbury, driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs, speeding, Jan. 9. Released on $500 non-surety bond for appearance Jan. 22 in Torrington Superior Court. Related

WATERBURY – Police have arrested a 43-year-old man who they say robbed two stores in Naugatuck and Waterbury. Jeffrey Stokarski was charged in the robbery of a Cumberland Farms in Naugatuck on Rubber Avenue on Jan. 3 in which cash…

Sen. Christopher S. Murphy has renewed his effort to boost Connecticut manufacturing by forcing the military to buy only American-made goods. After nearly a decade of promoting “Buy American” legislation with limited success in Washington, Murphy filed a bipartisan bill…

VALE DE SALGUEIRO, Portugal (AP) — The Epiphany celebrations in the Portuguese village of Vale de Salgueiro feature a tradition that each year causes an outcry among outsiders: Parents encouraging their children, some as young as 5, to smoke cigarettes….

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is getting his first medical checkup since taking office, a head-to-toe exam on Friday as questions swirl about the health and fitness of the oldest person ever elected to the nation’s highest office. In…

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — An ongoing shortage of fluids used to deliver medicine and treat dehydrated patients has hospital workers scrambling in the midst of a nasty flu season and supplies from factories in storm-ravaged Puerto Rico have been slow…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration is aiming to curb the number of veteran suicides by improving mental health treatment for the high-risk group. Trump signed an executive order Tuesday directing the secretaries of defense, homeland security and veterans…

HARTFORD (AP) – The U.S. Marshals service is now offering a $1,500 reward for information leading to the capture of an inmate who escaped from a Connecticut state prison. Jerry Mercado escaped from the Carl Robinson Correctional Facility in Enfield…

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. Watertown police officer…