Chester News

Goodspeed Musicals has announced the cast of LMNOP, an edgy new musical about an island whose citizens begin to lose their freedoms one letter at a time.

A stepped-up plan to replace railroad ties deteriorated by standing water and also fix drainage problems in a 6-mile stretch of Metro-North Railroad track in the Bronx, N.Y., in July will direct riders from cancelled New Haven Line runs onto busy trains originating in Connecticut.

It's been 50 years since the Goodspeed Opera House was restored and reopened, and the golden anniversary was a cause for celebration Monday night.

It is difficult to get your hands around the many helpful services that the Estuary Council of Seniors provides to senior residents of its nine member towns in eastern Connecticut.

Bounty Basket by Claudia Van Nes of Chester is in the show at Maple and Main and is a painting of Common Good Gardens in Old Saybrook.

The release of 1,050 channel catfish into Uncas Lake last week is raising questions among members of the committee that oversees the watershed the lake is part of.

Just an ordinary day in Chester Center in 1913, photographed by Hugh Spencer, and on exhibit at the Chester Museum at The Mill.

The Essex Steam Train & Riverboat is proud to join in the 100th anniversary celebration of the East Haddam Swing Bridge on Saturday, June 15, 2013.

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Just an ordinary day in Chester Center, a century ago, in 1913, photographed by Hugh Spencer, and on exhibit at the Chester Museum at The Mill.

Residents called for compromise Wednesday at an informational meeting on a proposal to double fares for the Chester-Hadlyme Ferry, urging state Department of Transportation officials to consider a smaller increase in the fare for crossing the Connecticut River on the historic ferry.

Voters at a town meeting Tuesday approved a $12,328,940 for 2013-2014 that includes an unusual one-half mill decrease in the property tax rate.