06/14/11 A preview party for the five-town Open Your Eyes Studio Tour will be held June 24 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Laurel Room at Whiting Mills, 100 Whiting St.
06/10/11 The Connecticut Siting Council has approved plans to complete the state's first wind farm.
06/10/11 The Connecticut Siting Council officially approved Connecticut second commercial wind farm, joining a project greenlighted last week in Colebrook.
06/02/11 The Connecticut Siting Council on Thursday officially approved the state's first commercial wind farm, in Colebrook, mirroring an unofficial straw poll the members took on May 25.
05/12/11 The Connecticut Siting Council on Thursday afternoon rejected a proposal to build the state's first commercial wind farm in Prospect, saying the turbines would mar the landscape.
05/12/11 Population Density And Height Of Turbines Factored Into Decision Get Business Mobile Text Alerts : Text BIZ To 37798 The Connecticut Siting Council Thursday rejected a wind-farm developer's proposal to construct two, 492-foot industrial turbines in Prospect, citing the density of the homes in the area and the turbines' height.
04/30/11 Now that the fishing seasons are open I have received several requests for a list of state records. This week we'll list the freshwater records. There hasn't been a new record for a freshwater species caught in Connecticut since 2005. That's when Alden L. Foss caught an 8-pound, 9-ounce chain pickerel at West Twin Lake in Salisbury.
04/27/11 Portions of Route 3 were damaged and closed to traffic Wednesday when portions of the Connecticut River overflowed, a fire official said.
04/13/11 The Connecticut Power & Energy Society will host a panel discussion on Wednesday of the merits of the state's wind power industry.
04/13/11 Confusion Over Whether Colebrook And Prospect Plans Would Fall Under New Rules If They're Adopted Get Business Mobile Text Alerts : Text BIZ To 37798 Even as a developer awaits a state decision on its plans for commercial wind farms in Colebrook and Prospect, there's a debate in the state Capitol over whether to create new regulations for wind farms, and whether the Colebrook and Prospect plans ...
03/31/11 On Wednesday President Barack Obama set the goal of reducing oil imports by one-third by 2025. Presidents have been setting such goals since Richard Nixon announced "Project Independence" in November
03/30/11 Suicides and Salem, Mass., the allure of French women, a 1920 bombing on Wall Street, endangered butterflies and getting your goat make up a very varied menu of literary treats at R.J. Julia Booksellers, 768 Boston Post Road, Madison this week.
03/24/11 Gov. Dannel Malloy appointed a new chairman of the Connecticut agency charged with siting electric generating facilities, telecommunications towers and hazardous waste facilities after the current chairman abruptly quit on Thursday.
03/24/11 HARTFORD -- Daniel F. Caruso of Fairfield resigned Thursday from the Connecticut Siting Council after an allegedly inappropriate discussion with a lawyer opposed to a pending wind power project.
03/23/11 Get Business Mobile Text Alerts : Text BIZ To 37798 On a cold, windswept ridge, members of the Connecticut Siting Council and residents of Colebrook and surrounding towns got their first look Tuesday at Colebrook South, an 80-acre parcel that is half of a proposed commercial wind farm.
03/23/11 The proposal to put eight wind commercial wind turbines in Colebrook and Prospect advanced further this week as the Colebrook section had a hearing before the Connecticut Siting Council.
03/07/11 Three rivers are above flood stage and are causing minor flooding this morning while another four rivers are nearing the flood level, according to the National Weather Service. Ice dam on Wild Ammonoosuc River in Bath
02/28/11 Building renewable energy in Connecticut is getting harder, but state Rep. Vickie Nardello wants to see some projects move forward.
02/27/11 About 45 miles of new right of way north of Groveton and to the border in Pittsburg is proposed through the Great North Woods for the Northern Pass project. Most of the 140-mile line to Deerfield would be upgraded to allow for larger towers to convey 1,200 megawatts of hydropower to New England from Canada.
02/20/11 Wildlife officials are investigating a snowmobile crash that injured two minors in northern New Hampshire. | 
