Hartford News

A backlog at the state forensics lab in Waterbury is delaying the investigation into a shooting in downtown White River Junction.

"She was a Sunday school teacher. She taught me 'love thine enemy.' You can't always live up to that, but she would be standing right here beside me supporting what I am doing today if she were still alive," Paul Keane said, holding a picture of his mother.

Hartford, Hartland and Woodstock fire departments put out the small brush fire off of Hartwood Way, a short gravel road that runs in front of the Applebutter Inn, up on a hill behind the Taftsville Country Store.

In his West Hartford studio, Duncan Johnson has shelves stacked with painted wooden boards, reclaimed from area building projects and carefully organized by color.

There is no better example of Mother Nature's power than Tropical Storm Irene. And on this mild spring day in April, a swollen Ottauquechee River is a reminder.