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Fire reported in Newtown
A house fire has been reported on Route 6 in Newtown. Emergency crews were reportedly on scene of a working fire at 54 Mount Pleasant Road with flames showing from the eaves of the home just after 8:15...
View ArticleBethel woman charged with risk of injury
BETHEL - Police charged a 30-year-old Bethel woman with risk of injury to a minor after they found her smoking narcotics in a car with a child present when they went to her home to serve an arrest...
View ArticleFairfield man charged with DUI in New York
ELMSFORD, N.Y. – State police charged a Fairfield man with drunken driving after he was stopped while driving his Jeep northbound in the southbound lanes of the Sprain Brook Parkway on Saturday. Declan...
View ArticleMahopac woman charged with $270,000 theft
SOUTHEAST, N.Y. - A 42-year-old Mahopac woman faces grand larceny and other charges as the result of an investigation into the embezzlement of more than $270,000 from a local business, state police...
View ArticleBrookfield man charged after drugs found in stolen car
A 25-year-old Brookfield man is being held on $75,000 bond after police found a slew of narcotics and other items in a stolen car that he was driving on March 23. Matthew Giannone, of Cherry Lane, was...
View ArticleNewtown home damaged by fire
NEWTOWN - An electrical short in a gutter heating system triggered a fire that damaged a house at 54 Mount Pleasant Road Saturday evening. Fire Marshal Bill Halstead said two people were home when the...
View ArticleClimate change is here
Climate changing is happening around the globe. It’s a fact of life. And humans, by and large, aren’t prepared to dealing with the changes global warming will bring. That’s the conclusion of the second...
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The waters of March
The rivers in Connecticut are now overflowing with rain and welting snow. Near where I live, a small river has flooded farm fields and there are ducks swimming where corn will be growing. So on the...
View ArticleBrookfield Board of Ethics to consider four complaints
The Brookfield Board of Ethics is getting to spend a lot of time together these days. For the second time in two weeks, the three-person board will again meet in Town Hall at noon to discuss four...
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Whisconier’s Unified Theater group are kindness “super heroes”
Whisconier Middle School Unified Theater performers on stage Friday night Kindness matters; indeed, kindness is the antidote to bullying. That simple, yet poignant theme, was at the heart of Whisconier...
View ArticleAnother school administrator leaves Newtown
Newtown Middle School has announced the retirement of Assistant Principal Tony Salvatore, who will leave as of the spring break. In the last year, the Newtown school district has seen a nearly complete...
View ArticleCt has new public website for state data
Gov. Malloy today launched Data.ct.gov, Connecticut’s new open data portal. It will allow widespread amounts of raw government data to be collected, placed on the internet, and shared with the public...
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Danbury kids support their leader
Lauren Dalton received the mentor of the year Award at Western Connecticut State University March 27 for her work as executive director of the Grassroots Tennis Program in Danbury. Students in the...
View ArticleNew Fairfield Decathlon team raises money for nationals
The Academic Decathlon Team of New Fairfield High School, a group of nine students, won first place at the Connecticut state championship and will be the only team to represent Connecticut at the...
View ArticleNewtown man charged with DUI in New York
EAST FISHKILL, N.Y. — State Police charged a Newtown man with aggravated drunken driving after they found him sleeping in his car on the shoulder of Interstate 84 early Saturday. Kevin W. Decatur, 36,...
View ArticleSuspect pleads not guilty in Ridgefield bank heist
DANBURY — An Oxford man who allegedly robbed a Ridgefield bank in January pleaded not guilty to all charges in state Superior Court on Monday. Andrew Rendflash, 25, of Oxford, is accused of...
View ArticleRid Litter in Ridgefield
Ridgefield’s annual Rid Litter Days will be Saturday, April 5 and Sunday, April 6. The town is asking both community groups who have adopted sections of roads and private citizens to get out and...
View ArticleAnti-semitic incidents up in CT
The number of documented anti-Semitic incidents in Connecticut increased in 2013, according to the Anti-Defamation League’s annual Audit of Anti-Semitic Incidents. A total of 31 incidents were...
View ArticleBethel selectmen cancel today’s meeting, April 1
The regularly scheduled meeting for Tuesday, April 1, 2014 for the Bethel Board of Selectmen has been cancelled.
View ArticleReport: Torrington woman planned Columbine copycat at Danbury High
DANBURY — A recently unsealed arrest warrant filed against a Torrington woman earlier this year details her plans to inflict a shooting akin to the Columbine High School massacre at Danbury High...
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