Avon News

West Hartford and Avon residents this November will cast their votes to fill the 19th Assembly District seat in the state House of Representatives.

More than 300 students from 40 high schools and community organizations will gather today at St.

A teacher in the Avon School District has been named South Dakota's Teacher of the Year.

With National Breast Cancer Awareness Month now in full swing, a number of Blue Back Square and Center businesses helped raise awareness last week about breast cancer by participating in the Susan G. Komen ...

The water company will flush water mains in the west Avon area today through Friday.

One thing Stephen Hard wants to make perfectly clear to anyone thinking about signing up for the Greater New Britain Arts Alliance tour of historic homes: "This is not Greenwich!" Say what? "The homes people ...

Hartford Police Chief Daryl K. Roberts today announced that the new City of Hartford Police Department Mounted Patrol Unit will graduate at a ceremony scheduled for Monday, October 6, 2008, beginning at 12 noon ...

A jury trial is scheduled to begin Nov. 4 in Litchfield Superior Court in the case of an Avon man accused of beating a man who was out for a nighttime walk in Winsted, after a judge rejected his attorney's ...

Home builders in Connecticut are looking to February and March for signs of whether construction will pick up next year.

We will surely see plenty of Democrat Arthur House and Republican State Rep. Kevin Witkos over the next month as they campaign for the State Senate seat being vacated by Republican Sen.

For 15 years, the state's two casinos had one overriding drive: Expand, expand, expand.

Lowe's has pulled the plug on its plan to build a store and garden center on a 24-acre parcel just off Route 44 near the Avon and Simsbury lines.

Leaves throughout the Nutmeg State soon will turn to countless hues, making the River Valley/Connecticut region perfect for Fall foliage "leaf peeping." A free colorful, new pocket brochure, produced by the ...

Don't have thousands to spend on original artwork? Don't worry. Don Carter, a local artist and self-styled Robin Hood of the Greater Hartford art world, has the answer.

It's only an informational meeting, but taxpayer advocates say citizen involvement in talks usually conducted behind closed doors just might revolutionize the way municipal business is done.

Longtime Town Manager Philip K. Schenck Jr. announced Friday that he will leave the job in mid 2010.

Pat Braun and his family were surprised to see an intruder on their property last week - a black bear.

Copper lamps gleam on a row of carrels in the back. Nearby, students sit in a circle of faux leather chairs, noses buried in notebooks.

Area Democratic candidates for state office opened their campaign headquarters at 15 Main St.

Novelist Stewart O'Nan's "Songs for the Missing" is due in bookstores in less than two months, but it's a 1998 work that is the focus of attention Monday in Farmington.