Brooklyn News

Clubs & Organizations Submitted by Cindy Sebrell on 2009-06-30.   The Regional Community YMCA, a branch of the YMCA of Greater Hartford, welcomes Christine Rivers as the new program coordinator for the Northeast community.

Regional Submitted by Kellly Tourtellotte on 2009-06-25.   This year marks the 200th anniversary of the Windham County Agricultural Society, founders of the Brooklyn Fair.

In an age when girls are marrying younger for the first time in 20 years and a nation obsesses over Sarah Palin's high heels, Regina Barreca, a professor of English literature and feminist theory in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, wants to know, what happened to feminism? Barreca a best-selling author, humorist, and nationally-acclaimed ...

Some state lawmakers who proposed legislation to gut mayoral control of schools are changing their tune after seeing a significant boost in the number of kids in their districts passing state math exams.

Connecticut state police say an 83-year-old woman has died in a collision between her car and a truck in Danielson.

Clubs & Organizations Submitted by Dorothy Lustig on 2009-05-26.   Dorothy Lustig Youth Leadership Forum Team presents computer to Librarian Catherine Tucker of Brooklyn Library.

But Tom Walton, 59, who has rented a house in its shade for 22 years, wanted to protect the 90-foot-tall evergreen.

During Holocaust Remembrance Day, a solemn piece of history was displayed in a courtroom at 360 Adams St.

A vehicle erupted in flames after its driver lost control and it struck a utility pole along Erial Road, severing it, police said.

The downtown is due to get a supermarket for the first time since the 1980s. A 7,200-square-foot Key Food Marketplace is expected to open this year at 80-82 Prospect St., where a Family Dollar store closed late last year.

The police have identified the man killed in a car crash on Route 6 early Monday as John W. Hanson, 57, of Brooklyn, Conn.

Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Mar. 19--NORWALK -- Stanley M. Seligson Properties did not have to worry for long about what would become of the 33,000 square feet of retail space left vacant with the liquidation and subsequent closure of Circuit City on Connecticut Avenue.

A Gambino hit man known for dissolving victims' bodies in vats of acid was convicted of four gangland slayings yesterday - a verdict that marks the end of an era for a ruthless breed of enforcers who served under the late "Dapper Don" John Gotti.

Since the current recession began a little more than a year ago, the U.S. economy has been playing a very bad tune.

Police were searching for two men who they said robbed another man on the city's northeast side late Monday.

Jewett City Savings Bank has earned a 5-star rating from BauerFinancial Inc., of Coral Gables, Fla., a leading bank-rating firm.

Wilgins Altera , 26, of West Haven, was sworn in today by First Selectman Gordon F. Joseloff as the newest member of the Westport Police Department.

Joanne Wilson was perfectly happy with her electronic typewriter until her mother insisted she get a computer.

Millstone Power Station equipment operator Ryan Robillard is engrossed in a training session held in the plant's control room simulator as part of his supervisor's training at the Waterford nuclear power plant.

Bonnie Goldberg Sandi Kahn Shelton hears voices in her head, the voices of the characters she creates for her novels, and they don't stop talking until she's got what they have to say on paper correctly.