WATERTOWN – The former Sealy mattress factory building is now gone and town officials are excited about the potential of the prime site in the heart of Oakville. At last week’s Town Council meeting, Town Manager Robert M. Scannell said…

WATERBURY – A police investigation into Friday night’s fatal shooting inside a Hill Street market remained open as of Sunday. The suspected gunman, who hasn’t been named by police, has not yet been apprehended. Police said Jose A. Cuevas, 49,…

KENT – Warmer temperatures over the weekend did not loosen up the ice jam on the Housatonic River. In fact, some parts that were open water Saturday iced back over. The ice jam has been in place since the evening…

WINSTED – The Board of Selectmen aims to put together a five-year infrastructure improvement plan by March 1. The goal is part of a strategic plan selectmen are working to update_ Selectmen were teamed into pairs after a special meeting…

WATERBURY – State Department of Energy and Environmental Protection officials say although a sheen will be noticeable on the Naugatuck River “for quite some time” after Saturday afternoon’s hydraulic oil spill, the actual environmental impact has yet to be determined….

CORNWALL – The Consolidated School Board of Education wants to meet the challenge of declining school enrollment head-on. Members have arranged several forums on the topic with Jonathan Costa, an educational consultant and assistant director of EdAdvance. About 45 people…

THOMASTON – Students from Thomaston Center School attended the Old State House to support classmate Gwyneth Romanzi, a finalist in this year’s Connecticut’s Kid Governor contest. This is the second year Thomaston Center School has participated in the program and…

SOUTHBURY – Southbury has quiet residential neighborhoods, high-achieving schools, the Heritage Village senior housing community, active family farms, parks, scenic tracts of open space and a mix of businesses along Main Street South. Jennifer Naylor and John Monteleone know all…

WASHINGTON, Conn. – Three years after residents of the three Region 12 towns voted for it in a referendum, construction of a “revolutionary” AgSTEM academy will begin this fall at Shepaug Valley School. The academy is expected to open for…

WATERBURY Visitors unfamiliar with Albanian culture might not realize the importance of a small metal bust on Alderman Jetlir Kulla’s desk. It depicts a warrior, clad in chain-mail, with a long, flowing, beard on his upturned chin. He wears a…

SOUTHBURY – Residents in four Heritage Village units were displaced when a fire broke out Sunday morning. Firefighters reported no injuries in the fire, but said residents in the four condominium units in Heritage Village Building 366 on Krueger Circle were…

WATERBURY — Police responded to a report of shots fired on Southview Street Sunday night, but found no gunshot victims. Waterbury Police Deputy Chief Fernando Spagnolo said around 7:15 p.m., officers were dispatched to the area of 76 Southview St.,…

WATERBURY To pants, or not to pants? That is the immortal burning question many a prisoner has asked as they exit Waterbury Superior Court. To pants is to suffer the insulting looks of passer-by as they see tan prison clothes…

HARTFORD State legislators are scrambling to find a solution to the Department of Transportation’s $388 million cumulative deficit, which Commission James P. Redeker likened to a crisis. The financial circumstances forced the DOT to postpone more than $4 billion in…

WATERBURY Waterbury Board of Education Commissioner John E. Theriault used the public address segment of last Thursday’s meeting to tackle recent reports he found to be “delirious.” Instead of sitting among his colleagues at the tables set up in the…

WATERTOWN A good crowd of contractors attended a mandatory prebid meeting for the renovation of Watertown’s the former Heminway School building. Plans for turning the former school just off Main Street into town offices are finally moving forward after decades….

It’s an issue that has come up many times before in Winsted – pedestrians walking on Route 44 to get to Ledgebrook Plaza. Winsted resident John Wiarda brought it up at last week’s selectmen meeting. He wondered whether the state…

WOLCOTT During Tuesday’s Wolcott Town Council meeting, Mayor Thomas G. Dunn was unusually coy about sharing some good news with the town. After talking about the need for a supplemental tax because of the state’s roughly $2 million cut in…

WOODBURY Region 14 Building Committee members were more than pleased last week to learn that construction bids for the Nonnewaug High School renovation project came in $2.5 million under budget. This allowed several alternatives to be included back into the…

THOMASTON During an Facebook discussion on the Thomaston People Speaks page, a debate in the comments section about the delay in continuing the road renovations quickly turned to road rage. A reporter for the Republican-American published a post in the…