Higganum News

On Campus Submitted by Bryant University on 2009-07-02.   Kenneth Roberts, son of Kim M. Radowiecki of Higganum and a graduate of Killingworth Hgih School Class of 2008, has achieved dean's list status for the Spring 2009 academic term at Bryant University in Smithfield, R.I. The dean's list honor requires a grade point average of 3.2 for the ...

Eagle Landing State Park in Haddam is a great place to take the whole family. You can park right near New England's longest river and view the ancient swing bridge in action as it opens gently to make way for sailboats and larger boats plying the waters of the Connecticut River .

A Middletown, Connecticut dog named Lady would make a perfect Disney movie after escaping from her adoptive home and living on the lam for almost seven months.

Submitted by Ona McLaughlin on 2009-06-01.   Ragna Tischler-Goddard will unravel the mysteries of tea at an open meeting of the Durham Garden Club Thursday, June 11, at 10 a.m., at the Durham Public Library, 7 Maple Ave.

It would be 95 years before James Byrnie's family found him. After decades of searching, Byrnie, who disappeared in 1902, was located in a tranquil cemetery on Silvermine Road, where patients of Connecticut Valley Hospital were buried in numbered, anonymous graves between 1878 and 1955.

Middletown police are investigating a motorcycle accident that sent two 25-year-old men to the hospital with injuries.

Police in Middletown are investigating an early-morning motorcycle crash that sent two men to Hartford Hospital Saturday with serious injuries.

Clubs & Organizations Submitted by Kim Radowiecki on 2009-05-12.   Come celebrate spring with a wine and food tasting on May 16 from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Haddam Fire Station, 439 Saybrook Road/Route 154.

Clubs & Organizations Submitted by Elizabeth Malloy on 2009-05-06.   Join the Haddam Historical Society May 21, at 7 p.m., at the Higganum Firehouse, Higganum, to review and discuss recently donated items and learn the stories behind the artifacts.

Submitted by Debra Campagna on 2009-05-05.   Middlesex County welcomes a comprehensive village market in Higganum on the Green featuring farm-fresh foods and products, fine works by local artisans, live music and speakers on sustainable living such as vegetarian cooking, growing and using herbs, greening old homes and bee keeping.

A referendum on the proposed $36,792,790 Region 17 education budget for the coming fiscal year is scheduled for Tuesday.

Harold Edward Wilson, 79, of South Lyme, and Naples, Fla., passed away unexpectedly on April 13, 2009, in Florida, surrounded by his loving family.

If a deal isn't reached between Middlesex Hospital and Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield in the next two weeks, Anthem patients could be asked to go somewhere else for non-emergency care.

Scholarship applications are now being accepted for the John A. Bertolini Memorial Scholarship Fund, which is awarded to a graduating high school senior who demonstrates leadership, character, scholarship and perseverance in the face of obstacles.

Haddam-Killingworth High School in Higganum has been evacuated for the second time in two days because of something in a chemistry classroom.

The event will help raise funds for the National Kidney Foundation of Connecticut.

The fire department was summoned to Haddam-Killingworth High School after a small fire in a chemistry class.

What Bradlee Height said he found most challenging about writing his first novel, a oeClosea , a oewas definitely trying to figure out how to present the story.

The essence of a 25-year tradition among local firefighters is toilet humor. Moving quietly on midnight missions, the volunteers plant brightly painted outhouses to mark important occasions within their ...

Ordering fruit for another company has a Higganum watermelon company in a $90,000 mess.