KENT – Route 7 remains closed due to flooding between Route 341 and Bulls Bridge Road, according to the state Department of Transportation. The state road was reported closed at 4:28 p.m. Saturday. As of 7:50 this morning, the DOT…

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A mezzanine floor inside the Jakarta Stock Exchange tower collapsed on Monday, injuring nearly 80 people and forcing a chaotic evacuation. Security camera footage circulated online showed the collapse, with a group of people plunging several…

CANAAN – Rehabilitation of the historic Canaan Union Station is getting closer to completion. Heavily damaged in an arson fire in 2001, the structure has gone through a metamorphosis that townspeople hope will bring it, and the town center, back…

TORRINGTON – With only nine months to go until her wedding day, Emily Starr said she discovered things she didn’t know she was missing after attending the bridal event Sunday. Starr was among the 600 attendees who browsed through the…

WOODBURY – Work on the Gallery room at the Woodbury Public Library continues, and selectmen at a recent meeting said there’s good news that means the project should be moving along expeditiously. Structural engineering plans were drawn up to replace…

WATERBURY – The city is surveying parents, students, school personnel and the community at large with the search for the next public schools superintendent underway. The school district has posted two surveys to its website. The first asks respondents to…

NEW HARTFORD – The Planning and Zoning Commission eyed the need for new regulations governing food trucks in the town when it met last week for the first time in 2018. The issue has become more pressing in recent months…

WATERBURY – City Department of Public Works employees were prepared to tackle their tremendous workload over the weekend, their boss said. “We prepared for this during the week, knowing we were going to have warm temperatures and quite a bit…

TORRINGTON – Local leaders are calling for the release of state money to Torrington from motor vehicle tax cap reimbursements. Torrington is one of three municipalities in the state that is owed money because of the motor vehicle tax cap…

NEW HARTFORD – Fear that the selectmen would be left to decide who would lead the Board of Finance prompted a compromise vote last Tuesday. The board had been presented with two nominees at its annual organizational meeting – Chairman…

FALLS VILLAGE – The Region 1 Board of Education, after approving the 2018-2019 calendar Monday, realized the local school boards that comprise the region hadn’t seen it. Falls Village representative Patricia A. Mechare noted after the vote that “maybe we…

WOODBURY – Woodbury selectmen at a meeting Thursday reinstated a storm water management committee consisting of Town Planner Maryellen Edwards, Public Works Director Richard Lamothe and Carol Haskins from the Pomperaug River Watershed Coalition. The committee will make sure the…

WINSTED – Can’t be there in person? Let technology bring the event to you. Winsted Superintendent of Schools Melony M. Brady-Shanley recognized social worker Patricia Ursaki at last week’s school board meeting. Ursaki recently won a $1,000 grant from the…

WATERBURY – Have you made it a habit of leaving your leftover change in a tip jar when you pick up your morning coffee? Perhaps you make it a point to leave something extra for a favorite barista. Don’t plan…

A weekly look at insider political news and views from around the region. TORRINGTON – A 33-year-old former Torrington woman who admitted violating her probation by getting arrested while on probation for a previous robbery conviction got a suggestion about…

KENT – Emergency officials were busy monitoring the frozen Housatonic River here Sunday and keeping tabs on the ice that had spread over its banks. Officials are concerned that a second ice jam has formed on the river and may…

BRISTOL – State police arrested a Bristol woman after she allegedly brought brass knuckles with her to court last week. Kristen E. Poland, 26, of Bristol, walked into Bristol Superior Court on Jan. 9 and judicial marshals found the brass…

WINSTED – The majority of the local public school staff is optimistic that the district will improve in the future. This is according to a survey that Superintendent Melony Brady-Shanley initiated – her first since starting the job in early…

LITCHFIELD – State police continue to investigate an armed robbery at the Citgo gas station on West Street on New Year’s Day. State police responded to the gas station on 199 West St., at 10:52 p.m. of a man wielding…

TORRINGTON – A city man was arrested after allegedly scratching another man’s car. Just before 11 p.m. on Jan. 8, a police officer noticed Joseph McCarthy, 33, of 226 Litchfield St., pacing around a parking lot on South Main Street…