Collinsville News

The grant will help pay for a 2-mile extension of the trail, which will take it to the intersection of Route 44 and Lovely Street.

Biz Buzz Submitted by Philip E. Worley on 2009-07-01.   Philip E. Worley Kim Ciccarello, left, Tom Mango and Scott Nardozzi, The First National Bank of Litchfield, chatting with Dennis Cardello, Collinsville Savings Society during a previous "Business after Hours" at Ben & Jerry's. The Canton Chamber of Commerce "Business after Hours" ...

Bargains start blooming Friday at Blumen Laden's Annual Fabulous Summer Sale in Collinsville.

As go Connecticut's post offices, say those of a wistful bent, so goes its rich tradition of place names - names associated by centuries of legend and settlement patterns with once isolated crossroads and now quiet villages.

Submitted by Jane Hoben on 2009-06-01.   If you're going to be hanging around town this summer, you'll be beating a path to Canton Public Library for its summer reading program.

Stuff like this always leaves me bemused: Op-ed and Place contributor David K. Leff this morning wrote a fond reminiscence of the Grateful Dead concert that yielded the recent live release "To Terrapin: Hartford '77. As he wraps up the piece, he observes, "That [the Dead] ... played one of its greatest -- of more than 2,300 -- performances in ...

Police in two Connecticut towns are investigating vehicle crashes Saturday morning.

I'll be double dipping in the New England Fun this weekend. First off- I'll be showing up to the Collinsville Store where we'll meet and greet, see the "Action Jackson" short video, and talk about all things kayaks.

Clubs & Organizations Submitted by Aimee Petras on 2009-04-14.   The Farmington River Watershed Association is pleased to announce that it has teamed up with The New England Rain Barrel Company to offer residents rain barrels as a way to conserve water and help the environment.

Regional Submitted by Jenna Wells on 2009-04-08.   The Farmington Valley Trails Council will hold its 12th annual Trails-in-Motion bicycle tour event on June 6th in conjunction with National Trails Day.

Canton and Burlington firefighters rescued a local man who jumped off a Collinsville bridge into the Farmington River Monday evening.

Fanzter, Inc., the company behind the celebrity style and product discovery platform Coolspotters , has reached an agreement with Newsweek to power an "Obamastyle" content module on Newsweek.com. "Obamastyle" ...

Thirty years ago, when Connecticut was one of the first states to pass a bottle-deposit bill to encourage recycling of soda and beer containers, Nutmeggers were praised for their foresight during a time of ...

Does it not feel as if the first half of the 21st century will be spent correcting the mistakes of the last half of the 20th? We abandoned cities; now we're rebuilding them.

Two old dams on the Farmington River could be brought back to life. U-S Congressman Chris Murphy announced he plans to propose legislation to transfer a federal license to operate the dams to the town of ...

Waste gate controls sit idle and are covered with snow at the upper dam and powerhouse on the Farmington River in Collinsville, unused and deteriorating since they ceased producing power in the 1960s.