BETHLEHEM – Newport Academy is planning an expansion that includes four dormitory pods, two main buildings, a riding stable and cafeteria on property recently purchased next to its existing Double Hill Road campus. On Nov. 29, Monroe Operations LLC bought…

TORRINGTON – About two dozen people – black and white men, women and a few children – came together in the brightly lit basement hall at Workman Memorial AME Zion Church on Brightwood Avenue Saturday morning to celebrate the legacy…

KENT – Parents are asking the Kent Board of Education to intervene and improve the school’s grading policy, claiming that changes implemented this year are detrimental to student learning. Parent Melissa Woodin was one of several parents who attended the…

SOUTHBURY – Temperatures rose on a rainy Friday night, causing large blocks of ice to break off Pomperaug River and flow toward Pomperaug Trail where it gathered and got stuck, backing up the water and flooding homes along the banks…

KENT – About a dozen people had to evacuate from their homes on Route 7 in Kent Saturday due to an ice dam that broke and pushed the Housatonic River up over its banks and over the road. State police…

HARWINTON – Lisa Cheney woke up just before 1:30 a.m. Friday to her dog, Sammy, fidgeting in bed. Sammy started growling, and Cheney turned on the light to see what the problem was. That’s when she heard sizzling. She opened…

BEACON FALLS – After16 years suffering through summer temperatures topping 100 degrees, Woodland Regional High School will finally get air conditioning. The Board of Education approved a contract with MJ Daly of Waterbury to install five air conditioning units to…

SOUTHBURY – A zoning amendment to allow piggeries was deemed too restrictive by local farmers, so the Zoning Commission decided to scrap the proposal in favor of a special permit process for individual applications for a small scale commercial pig…

WATERBURY – There are two massive blocks of stone on either side of the altar inside the Masonic Temple on Highland Avenue. One, coarsely hewn and blank, is called a “rough ashlar.” The other, level, polished and engraved, is called…

WATERBURY – Empowering young minds through self-esteem enhancement was a theme sung loudly at the third annual “Each One, Teach One Youth Summit” Saturday. The event, hosted by the Concerned Black Clergy of Waterbury and Waterbury Public Schools, commemorated the…

HARWINTON – This is the story of a land trust, neighbors, and an acre of trees. The proposal sounded simple enough when last fall, Andrew Goldstein got a call from his neighbor, Robert Gagne. Gagne asked Goldstein if he could…

WATERBURY – Sherman Peters, sporting a blue shirt and dark pants, sat in a wooded swivel chair in Waterbury Superior Court last week, jotting notes on a pad as a gray-haired retiree on the witness stand answered questions about whether…

WATERBURY – The new year has started, and the contributions to the Greater Waterbury Campership Fund continue. Already donations have reached $725, and there’s plenty of time and excitement to continuing building on last year’s success. In 2017, the Campership…

WATERBURY – The state Department of Transportation plans to shut down the Interstate 84 eastbound Exit 21 off-ramp for several weeks next summer as it renovates the structure. The work is expected to begin in spring 2019, according to the…

NEWS NUGGETS WATERBURY Patrons surprised by Bertucci’s Brass Mill Center closing The Bertucci’s restaurant in the Brass Mill Center is closed. By Monday afternoon, the sign had been scrubbed off the top of the building and workers were busy preparing…

HARTFORD – The crowded slate of Democratic and Republican candidates for governor would already test the occupancy limit of a clown car, and even more additions may squeeze inside yet. The analogy speaks to the hectic, mad scramble of would-be…

HARTFORD – After the 2012 school massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, police officials not involved in the investigation and “dignitaries” were allowed into the building and potentially contaminated the crime scene by stepping on bullet casings and glass shards that had…

WATERBURY – On Dec. 30 the Rodriguez-Rivera family lost everything when fire blazed through their second floor apartment took all but their lives and the clothes on their backs. “We were all sleeping when my youngest daughter ran to my…

HARTFORD – One of the state’s top Republican leaders called President Donald Trump’s reported vulgar comments on African countries inappropriate, offense and antithetical to Republican and American values. Senate Republican Leader Leonard A. Fasano, R-North Haven, issued his forceful condemnation…

TORRINGTON – A city man, who told police his alleged attempt to rob a woman at a bank ATM was a case of mistaken identity, was ordered held on $200,000 bond Friday in Torrington Superior Court. David P. Garceau, 38,…