Category Archives: Local News

SIMMONS ANGRY Officials in Stonington criticized Governor Dannel Malloy yesterday for asking the town to report monies in its undesignated fund while planning to cut all of its $1.6 million in state e...

LEDYARD SHOOTING Ledyard police are investigating a shooting. India Robinson says she and two cousins were backing out of the driveway at 904 Shewville Road around 10 Tuesday night, when she says guns...

ZONING COMMISSION ELIMINATED The Groton Town Council voted last night to disband the Zoning Commission, designating the Planning Commission to handle planning and zoning matters. The change, which wil...

NORWICH VIGIL Rejecting the message put forth by white supremacist groups in Charlottesville, Virginia earlier this month is re-iterated Tuesday night during a vigil outside Norwich City Hall. More th...

REID AND HUGHES DEVELOPMENT APPROVED Some ten months after Norwich aldermen voted to demolish the vacant Reid and Hughes building on Main Street, the City Council Monday night approves a development a...

MALLOY BUDGET PLAN Governor Dannel Malloy's new spending plan would eliminate state education aid to 85 school districts and cut school aid to another 54 cities and towns, if the state budget impasse ...

REID AND HUGHES The future of the vacant Reid and Hughes building in Downtown Norwich could be determined on Monday night. The city council is expected to act on a proposed development agreement that ...

NEWTOWN LAWSUIT Lawyers for the parents of two children killed in the Newtown school massacre are demanding to see evidence that two slain teachers had access to keys that could have been used to lock...

LOCAL VIGIL FOR CHARLOTTESVILLE A candlelight vigil for the Charlottesville, Virginia victims was held last night at McCook Point Park in Niantic to provide an opportunity for people to come together ...

TODDLER DEATH Officials in Connecticut have ruled the methadone overdose death of a 3-year-old boy a homicide. The state medical examiner's office says Leon Lapierre, of Stafford, died in April of acu...