Gales Ferry News

A second man was arrested today in connection with the March 21 armed robbery of a CVS pharmacy in which more than 2,000 OxyContin pills were stolen.

Marc Candels, 42, of 11 Riverview Road, was charged Tuesday with risk of injury to a minor and delivery of a controlled substance.

While reviewing the cause of a Bank Street bar's deck that partially collapsed, building and design officials said Monday they have a better idea of what happened.

A Connecticut Post Office was damaged when its roof collapsed. Postal workers, in Gales Ferry, are now struggling to do their work in another location.

Postal Service officials say a post office in Ledyard will be closed for at least several days after its roof collapsed during heavy rains.

It's the time of year when some local residents look to a short-term change of address as they relocate for the winter months in warmer climates.

The Chamber of Commerce of Eastern Connecticut will move its headquarters site from Gales Ferry to Waterford by the end of this year, according to chamber officials.

Fire officials are investigating house fire in Ledyard. The fire happened at 673 Shewville Road in the Gales Ferry section of town.

A pair of great blue herons glided silently along the riverbank as my friend Ian and I paddled our tandem kayak one bright, chilly morning earlier this week.

Ledyard residents are rallying behind Alice Acres, the Gales Ferry farm plagued this summer by days of rain that delivered a devastating blow to the business.

Two people were taken to the hospital this morning after they suffered minor injuries when the bus they were riding on sideswiped a concrete post.

Forty years of teaching is enough reason to deserve a pat on the back, but fifth-grade teacher Stuart Sharack earned special recognition recently when the Civil Air Patrol named him its inaugural "Aerospace Teacher of the Year."In addition to his normal classroom duties at Juliet A. Long Elementary School in Gales Ferry, Sharack directs the ...

Ledyard - When town officials ask residents what they want new developments to look like, they often get the same answer: "Make it look New Englandy." "And we say, well what is your idea of New Englandy?" said Mark Cherry, chairman of the Ledyard Planning Commission.

Ron Palillo, the Cheshire native who starred in TV's "Welcome Back, Kotter," will be in Manchester this weekend for the Silk City Flick Fest, where his film "The Curse of Micah Rood" is being screened.

Ledyard - The 20-acre site that's home to Alice Acres Farm Market & Greenhouses has been passed from generation to generation ever since the British established the site as a farm for colonial settlers.

Master Brayden Connolly Reilly along with his grandparents, William and Maureen Grohocki Jr.

There's an old saying about local government: Everyone's happy as long as the trash gets picked up at the curb.

Mystic - Angelo J. DiMarco, age 86, passed away Sept. 15, 2009, at Mystic Manor in Mystic.

Despite what I believe is mayoral incompetence, preferential treatment for developers, an inadequate charter, a hamstrung council and innumerable other woes, Ledyard continues - but not for want of heroes.

Putnam Bank has opened its newest branch in Norwich, part of its continuing expansion into southeastern Connecticut.