Several Bethel schools dismissing early due to power outages
UPDATE – 10:50 a.m. Several schools in Bethel will dismiss early today due to power outages caused by a crash on Plumtrees Road this morning. Bethel Schools Superintendent Dr. Kevin Smith said an...
View ArticleCT horse owners protected by new law
The Connecticut state senate unanimously approved a bill early this morning that protects the owners and handlers of domesticated horses and Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said he’ll sign it. The bill clarifies...
View ArticleDanbury walk promotes bully awareness
The AmeriCorps Collegiate Development Program working alongside The Hispanic Center of Greater Danbury will sponsor a walk to promote awareness about bullying at Rogers Park Middle School on 21...
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leave baby animals alone
It’s now spring and people may be spotting fawns, young birds out of their nests, or baby rabbits in their yard. The state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection has this suggestion: don’t...
View ArticleCT’s Common Core Task Force meets May 7
The Educators’ Common Core Implementation Task Force is set to meet May 7, at Cromwell High School, 1 Donald Harris Drive in Cromwell. The meeting will run from 4:30-6:30 p.m. and will be held in...
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The lines to ancient fairs
From the air in Peru, once can see the incredible stone carvings of the Nazca people, who lived around 100 BC Now. archeologists have found an older system of lines in the earth, left by the Paracas...
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Danbury students write about women of influence
State Sen. Michael McLachlan, R,D, and Union Savings Bank presented National Women’s History Month Essay Contest Awards to area students in an April 28 ceremony at Danbury City Hall. Students from...
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Bethel teen’s photo to get D.C. display
Danielle Nielsen, a sophomore at Bethel High School, won second place for her photograph, “Poppin’ Mornin’ Smile”, for the Fifth Congressional District Art Competition. U.S. Rep. Elizabeth Esty, D,5th...
View ArticleArrest made in Danbury-Bridgeport shooting case
BRIDGEPORT – Police have made an arrest in connection with the fatal shooting of a local man in Danbury and the shooting up of a house here. Rashad Dancy, 25, was arrested following a motor vehicle...
View ArticleConspiracy group comes to Newtown
A group of people who question official accounts of the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in December 2012 rallied Tuesday night before the Newtown Board of Education meeting. They appeared...
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Robert Frost’s Oven Bird
This morning, I held a stunned ovenbird in my hand; Here’s what Robert Frost had to say about that bird. The Oven Bird There is a singer everyone has heard, Loud, a mid-summer and a mid-wood bird, Who...
View ArticleDanbury students excel at Invention Convention
Ten students from Danbury schools received prizes for their inventions at the state’s largest Invention Competition that was held May 3 at the University of Connecticut at Storrs. The students who...
View ArticleWestern Connecticut Health Network honors Cancer Survivor Day
Western Connecticut Health Network – Danbury and New Milford Hospitals – in partnership with Ann’s Place and the American Cancer Society, will celebrate the Annual National Cancer Survivors Day® on...
View ArticleWaterbury Chorale to perform Mozart at St. Rose of Lima
The 100-member Waterbury Chorale will bring Mozart’s “The Great Mass in C Minor” to St. Rose of Lima Church in Newtown on May 17. The beginning composition was started in 1978, but Mozart never...
View ArticleBethel ed board makes two key appointments
Kristen Brooks was unanimously appointed by the Board of Education as Bethel’s next Assistant Superintendent of Schools. She fills the vacancy that will be created by the upcoming retirement of Jan...
View ArticleAbsentee ballots for Ridgefield vote available
Absentee ballots for both theRidgefield 2014-15 budget referendum and the sale of 10 acres at the Schlumberger-Doll Research Center campus in town are now available at the Town Clerks Office. The...
View ArticleGreenwich PD recognized in New Milford embezzlement take down
U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut Deirdre Daly has recognized the Greenwich Police Department for its hand in the arrest of a Burlington businessman convicted of embezzling more than...
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Danbury man convicted in New York drug sale
CARMEL, N.Y. — A Danbury man has been convicted of felony drug sales in Putnam County. His arrest occurred just one day after he completed parole in Connecticut for the same crime. Bounmy Douangta,...
View ArticleDanbury police seek missing teen
DANBURY - Police have issued a silver alert for a 15-year-old boy who was reported missing Wednesday. William Placencia is described as a white male, 5-feet, 2-inches tall and weighing 130 pounds with...
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Busy spring weekend coming up
Maybe it’s because Mother’s Day is this weekend, but it seems to me it will be another weekend full of activities from which people in the area will get to choose. The cover of “The Vine and the...
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