Bridgewater News

The aroma of grilling burgers filled the air in the Branchville train station parking lot Saturday as an Independence Day celebration kicked off what may become a Saturday tradition this summer.

The Simplicity Regent is the lawn tractor that gives you more. You get more performance, more comfort, and more durability than any other tractor in its class.

Martin Stein, of Bridgewater, cannot run the 16th annual New Balance Moonlight Run 5K Friday night but his wife, Nancy, and 30 of their friends plan to run in his stead.

An informed citizenry is essential to democracy. When the government tries to limit access to information or make exceptions, it is heading in the wrong direction.

When the Board of Education in Region 12 meets in July, its last two chairmen won't be taking seats at the table.

Call it the marriage of Still and Lill. For years, the people creating a water trail along the Still River and the Friends of the Lake, the advocacy group that supports Lake Lillinonah, have held spring cleanup days.

The Region 12 Board of Education will have to come up with a new budget for 2009-10. On Tuesday residents in the three-town region turned down the proposed $20,796,689 budget adopted by the Board of Education 555-510 in a referendum vote.

When I go to New Milford for a story, I never return to Danbury via Route 7. Rather, I take a route leading me through the village of Bridgewater, and is so doing, think up an excuse -- any excuse -- to visit the Bridgewater Country Store.

When Washington residents vote on the Region 12 school budget May 5, they will also vote for four of seven candidates for school board seats.

Redding First Selectman Natalie Ketcham said Wednesday that a meeting with first selectmen from Trumbull, Monroe and Easton on Tuesday was just a fact-finding mission and nothing more.

Firefighters hustled late Monday morning to douse a furious fire that spewed flames and thick smoke from a 1916 Park Lane Road home with a storied past.

Ten towns in greater Danbury will receive just under $300,000 in federal stimulus money that will be used to boost law enforcement, Gov.

The Region 12 Board of Education is recommending Superintendent Bruce Storm's $20.8 million 2009-10 budget.

If the city paid for the badly needed work, it would eat up almost all of its paving budget for a year.

A judge dismissed most of the claims in a lawsuit from a New Milford resident who said Bridgewater First Selectman William Stuart acted like Boss Hogg during a long-simmering zoning dispute.

This spring, The Sherman Playhouse is proud to present the uproarious comedic farce, NOT NOW DARLING, by Ray Cooney and John Chapman.

The body of an unidentified man was found Friday night in the charred rubble of the house at 18 Chimney Point Road.

The Danbury area's unemployment rate jumped to 6.6 percent in January, with 1,300 more jobless residents than the previous month.

Gerald Ronan of Bridgewater will not be able to go to the state legislature Wednesday.

Region 12 Superintendent Bruce Storm is asking the school board to approve a proposed $20.8 million budget, which reflects an 1.12 percent increase from this year.