Easton News

A man was pulled from his car by Fairfield firefighters after driving it into a river off of Route 59 Saturday.

A 44-year-old Easton man on Saturday lost control of his 2004 Infiniti, which became airborne and plunged into the Rooster River off Stratfield Road, somehow managing to avoid a nearby July 4 picnic and partygoers and a crowd of neighborhood children.

It may be more than a hundred years after their deaths, but the founding families in this historically rich community are getting renewed attention.

A local committee in Easton, Connecticut, has made a suggestion on the location of a 9/11 Memorial Site -- the same site that was denied by the Planning and Zoning Commission six months ago.

He owes more than $600,000 in state and federal taxes, according to court documents.

I'd like to give a thumbs up to your "Thumbs down" editorial about the U.S. Court of Appeals panel that ruled against the complaint about flight path changes that would swing more traffic from New York airports over Fairfield County.

Allison Remmell, 11, managed to raise more than $75 for Samuel Staples Elementary School's 3rd annual Walk to End Homelessness earlier this year, the most among fellow fifth-graders. But Allison didn't think what she did was all that big a deal.

Zena Galberth trudged three miles from home with her 8-year-old son, Tyrese, to the Bridgeport Transportation Center to give state lawmakers a piece of her mind Wednesday about Gov.

The renovation of the Fairfield Police marine unit headquarters at the South Benson Marina -- which among other things, is getting a second floor -- is about three-quarters complete.

Andrew Collins, a Civil Air Patrol cadet from Easton, was recently presented with the General Billy Mitchell award at the Stratford Eagles' facility at Sikorsky Memorial Airport.

If the cost of New York theater tickets seems prohibitive in this economy, the Fairfield Rotary Club suggests catching a bit of Broadway closer to home as performed by talented high school students from across the region, some of whom may be Broadway bound.

Eight new cases of swine flu, or H1N1, have been identified in the state. The new cases include residents in Bridgeport, Easton, Hamden, Redding, Sherman, Southington, Stamford and Weston.

The Region 9 school district must begin again the search for a superintendent of the two-town, five-school district since its first choice has withdrawn.

The town's 30-year wait for an open-air structure in which to stage concerts ended Friday when a gazebo was erected on the Easton Community Center green, off Sport Hill Road.

Three more cases of swine flu have been confirmed in Connecticut, bringing the total number of state cases to 56.

The state Department of Public Health has identified 22 new cases of swine flu in the state.

On a Sunday afternoon in May, 2008, 21 police officers assembled outside a small, one-story ranch house in Easton.

HARTFORD, Conn. - Connecticut public health officials say three more cases of swine flu have been confirmed in the state.

Easton has no farmer's market. No matter, though, because this enclave of agriculture in southwestern Connecticut is one big farmer's market.

The Connecticut Department of Public Health has confirmed six new cases of swine flu, bringing the state's total to 53.