05/07/11 Montville - Juan Cruz broke a 1-1 tie with a one-out RBI single in the seventh inning as New London High School maintained its grip on first place in the Eastern...
05/06/11 BRIDGEPORT, Conn. -- A man accused of being a white supremacist was sentenced Thursday to 10 years in prison for what prosecutors called a dangerous plot to sell grenades and firearms to a government informant posing as a member of a Ku Klux Klan group.
05/06/11 Recently the Stamford based Connecticut Aquatic Resource Education (C.A.R.E.) class graduated 128 students from three classes. There were 110 graduates from the Stamford class and 18 from the Shelton class.
05/06/11 Discounter Target Stores Inc. has completed a grocery remodel of its first batch of Connecticut stores and will begin makeovers this summer on a half dozen more as part of an expanded national rollout of fresh produce, meat and other foods to its merchandise lineup.
05/05/11 A man accused of being a white supremacist was sentenced Thursday to 10 years in prison for what prosecutors called a dangerous plot to sell grenades and firearms to a government informant posing as a member of a Ku Klux...
05/04/11 Intensive Improvement Program In Struggling Districts Produces Encouraging Results, Pulls Up Reading Skills gmerritt@courant.com
05/04/11 HARTFORD -- One of the nation's worst student achievement gaps appears to be narrowing in districts such as Bridgeport that have been working intensively with the state for the past three years, according to a new study presented to the State Board of Education on Wednesday.
05/04/11 Join Mark Twain's daughters Susy, Clara, and Jean for a Mother's Day Weekend Princess Tea Party on Saturday, May 7, at 2 p.m. Princesses are invited to wear their favorite dress and bring their favorite doll for an afternoon of sweets and savory treats, followed by a performance by the Hartford Children's Theater and a visit with the author of "Merrilee Mannerly and Her Magnificent Manners ...
04/23/11 Out-Of-State Firms Spend Big Money In Persuasion Effort Through High-Powered Lobbyists Up to now, the Connecticut General Assembly has never approved any of the bills offered in recent years that would enable cities and towns to install cameras at red lights and collect fines by mailing tickets to violators.
04/21/11 Every day of the year. Tex West Haven If Obama is re-elected, I have passage booked for Bora Bora.
04/19/11 Principal Lawrence DiPalma reads to Chera Gaudino's first grade class at Prendergast School in Ansonia on Tuesday, April 19, 2011. DiPalma was recently selected as the Connecticut winner of the National Distinguished Principal Award.
04/16/11 Chris Letourneau uses an excavator to move a trench box during construction along the Ansonia, Conn. extension to the River Walk that runs along the Housatonic River Thursday, April 14, 2011.
04/01/11 An Ansonia man is facing charges after he threatened a state representative and said he would kill her if proposed gun legislation passed.
04/01/11 Duchess Restaurants is debuting a new Coca-Cola machine at its Ansonia fast food location that lets users make their own soft drinks.
03/28/11 Joe Della Vecchia Jr. has signed a letter-of-intent to play football at Stonehill College in Easton, Mass.
03/25/11 A team of seniors from Kolbe Cathedral High School compete in Junior Achievement of Western Connecticut's first High School Business Challenge at Fairfield University's Dolan School of Business Friday, Mar. 25, 2011. Pictured, from left, Jalen Medina, Juan Torres, Alexis Russell and Laura Garcia.
03/24/11 Shannon Wicker, 25, of Orchard Street was charged with interfering with police, theft of a firearm, criminal possession of a firearm, weapons in a motor vehicle and carrying a firearm without a permit. He was held on $75,000 bond.
03/23/11 What the state's best recyclers can teach us. The CRRA Trash Museum in Hartford.** Eleven years after the deadline to recycle 40 percent of their waste, hardly any towns have reached that goal.
03/19/11 At the start of the year, the white two-piece suit which John Lennon wore on the cover of Abbey Road was auctioned off by Connecticut-based Braswell Galleries, and sold for $48,000. But it later turned out that the man who sold the suit owes a lot of back rent for his former Manhattan apartment. And yesterday, a judge ruled that the gallery had to pay more than $21,000 to the landlord of that ...
03/16/11 FAIRFIELD RUGBY JAMBOREE: There will be a rugby jamboree Saturday at 10 a.m. at Fairfield Warde. It will feature a full day of rugby instruction, short scrimmages, skills competitions and games. |