Clinton News

James Austin Rich, 66, of Thomaston, passed away peacefully Sunday, May 12, 2013, at his home surrounded by his loving family.

Gardener David Perry, right, watches as Deon Lyons negotiates through a vegetable garden in Fairfield that uses milk jugs and other markers to help visually impaired people work in the garden.

Two people were hospitalized after a one-car traffic accident in the northbound lanes of Interstate 95 late Thursday afternoon.

Richard Lary looks out over his trout pond Monday afternoon in Clinton. Lary, a dairy farmer, has been told that he must remove the pond that he recently built on his property because it was built near a wetland and is flooding a nearby neighbors road.

A man who was burning brush on his Canaan Road property escaped unharmed after the fire got out of control about 1 p.m. Monday and consumed 5.4 acres of dead grass before emergency responders put it out.