WATERBURY – The firm tasked with overseeing the city’s search for a new city schools chief will convene a series of meetings Wednesday, seeking input from stakeholder groups and community members. Search firm Ray & Associates will hold meetings throughout…

NEW HARTFORD – Members of the asset evaluation team met in executive session on Wednesday night to look at three bids submitted for purchase of the town’s sewer system and/or its water company. The bids ranged from a low of…

LITCHFIELD – The Region 6 Board of Education has created a director of operations position and filled it with a business teacher at Wamogo Regional High School. Jeremiah Sattazahn, in his third year at the school, was appointed by the…

TORRINGTON – A convicted fentanyl kingpin has been granted permission to travel to a new catering job in New York state, court records show. In 2016, John Casadei of Morris was slapped with drug charges as the leader of what…

BEACON FALLS – A recent agreement between the town and the police union will help accomplish the goal of having two officers on duty for each shift, officials say. The town and police union came to an agreement late last…

CORNWALL – The Board of Selectmen has decided not to support the Cornwall Conservation Trust in seeking a state grant to help preserve three contiguous pieces of land that contain 104 acres. Though the board has given its approval in…

TORRINGTON – A city man’s alleged attempt to give police a false name backfired, resulting in two additional charges on top of drug possession, police say. Two plainclothes officers said they saw a man, later identified as Chad Weed, 31,…

TORRINGTON – A city parent’s “petition of no confidence” in Superintendent Denise L. Clemons has garnered nearly 600 online signatures on the website change.org. Not all of the signatories are city residents. Keith Hudak said he started the online petition…

NEWS NUGGETS Middlebury Public Works director wants employees trained on emerald ash borer threat to trees Hundreds of dead ash trees pose a threat of falling onto pedestrians, vehicular traffic and even some houses. “We knew about this problem for…

LITCHFIELD – More than 60 area farmers gathered at Wamogo Regional High School on Saturday for an exercise in professional development designed to help them make their farming operations more efficient and productive. The second Litchfield Hills Farmers Forum was…

WATERBURY – About 6,000 gallons of hydraulic oil leaked into the Naugatuck River on Saturday afternoon after a ball valve failed in an oil tank at the Somers Thin Strip Co. The Waterbury Fire Department, as well as officials from…

KENT – Kent firefighters extinguished a kitchen fire at Wasabi Restaurant on Saturday afternoon within 35 minutes of being dispatched. Kent Volunteer Fire Department Chief Alan T. Gawel said there was an “active fire” in the grill area of the…

TORRINGTON – Three days after a prosecutor’s request to increase Jerel Reid’s bond due to probation violations for illegal drug use was denied, the 24-year-old took heroin and caused a head-on crash on Housatonic Avenue in New Milford, police allege….

WATERBURY – A gunman remains at large after fatally shot a man inside a Hill Street market Friday night. Police said Jose A. Cuevas, 49, of Bethel was shot and killed inside the Refugio Mini Market at 76 Hill Street…

WATERBURY – Donations to the Greater Waterbury Campership Fund continue to nudge upward toward that first $1,000 marker for the 2018 campaign that will formally begin in a few weeks. A $150 contribution from Robert Burns and Gary Schiro, of…

NEW HARTFORD – “It’s Been a Year and We’re Still Here,” their signs proclaimed. Indeed, at least three dozen people stood in front of Town Hall on Saturday morning to protest Donald Trump’s presidency and all that has entailed since…

WATERBURY – Thousands of Connecticut residents must submit documents to Access Health CT in the next two months or face losing their health insurance. Access Health CT Chief Executive Officer Jim Wadleigh said Friday that 23,000 Connecticut residents – 750…

KENT – One week after the flooding and flash freeze on the Housatonic River created an ice jam, warmer temperatures caused melting Saturday on some parts of the river. However, the mile-long ice jam remains. The National Weather Service office…

SALISBURY – As they did a year ago when President Donald Trump was inaugurated, hundreds gathered Saturday to express their concerns and dismay with his first year in office. While billed as a women’s march, many men also took part…

WATERBURY – A former employee of a local Forever 21 clothing store is accusing his former female supervisor of pressuring him for sex, according to a recently filed federal lawsuit. The suit, filed Thursday in federal court in New Haven,…