YOUNG MAN KILLED
NORTH STONINGTON, Conn. (AP) – State police say a man involved in a single-car crash has died in North Stonington. Twenty-one-year-old Stephon Hedge, of Mystic, died of injuries sustained in the crash late Saturday night. Police say Hodge exited Route 184 in a Chevy Silverado and struck a tree on an embankment. He was transported to Westerly Hospital where he died. A 17-year-old passenger, Carston Logan of Stonington was taken to Rhode Island Hospital with serious injuries. The crash is under investigation.
LOCALS FIND TROUBLE IN RHODE ISLAND
HOPKINTON, R.I. (AP) – A Connecticut man and four teenagers have been arrested in connection to the armed robbery of a Rhode Island convenience store. Hopkinton and Richmond police departments arrested five people following a car chase Friday evening. Police received a 911 call Friday about two men brandishing a handgun and demanding money at a convenience store. They fled without any cash.
Twenty-nine-year-old Jeffrey Wheeler of East Lyme and 18-year-old Benjamin Ibbitson of New London, are being held for armed robbery and drug possession charges, while other car occupants are being investigated in connection to an armed robbery of a nail salon in West Warwick earlier that day.
The three juveniles are being held for referral today in Family Court.
TOWN HALL ON SCHOOL VIOLENCE TODAY AT FITCH
GROTON, Conn. (AP) – U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal has scheduled a town hall discussion with high school students in Groton to discuss school safety, gun violence and other youth concerns. The Connecticut Democrat’s event is set for Monday afternoon at Fitch High School. Blumenthal says he also plans to discuss college affordability, climate change, opioids, immigration reform and other issues important to students. The senator held a similar town hall at Branford High School earlier this month in the wake of the Parkland, Florida, school shooting and nationwide student walkouts over gun reform. He said then that young people have been the driving force behind key social change movements.
OPINIONS SOUGHT ON PQ BRIDGE
Groton town planners will ask residents Monday how to reinforce the village concept at Poquonnock Bridge. The town budgeted $30,000 last year for studying potential future development in the historic center of Groton. Consultant Union Studio Architecture and Community Design of Providence will present its initial ideas at 6 p.m. in the Groton Public Library. The consultant then will ask residents what they’d like to see in the area.
CANDIDATES FORUM TONIGHT
A candidates forum will be presented by the Tri Town Democratic Town Committees, representing Democrats of Lyme, Old Lyme and Old Saybrook, at 6:30 tonight at the Lyme-Old Lyme Middle School. Candidates will present brief statements and then answer questions from delegates of the committees. The event is free and open to the public. Doors will open at 6 p.m.
AGENT ORANGE MEMORIAL PLANNED
The widows of two former Waterford Veterans of Foreign Wars have raised more than $8,000 for a memorial, which will be unveiled next month. The memorial in Waterford will honor all those who were exposed to the herbicide Agent Orange during their military service in the Vietnam War. The two women have spent countless hours on the internet researching Agent Orange, which was the most common herbicide used by the U.S. military during the war to reduce foliage for tactical purposes. The memorial will be unveiled on May 26th at Waterford Town Hall.
