Jewett City News

The ultimate act of bravery leaves a Griswold man fighting for his life in the burn unit at Bridgeport Hospital.

A quarter just doesn't buy you what it used to in Norwich. What used to pay for an hour, now only pays for 20 minutes on the city's meters.

Nearly a year after the deeply troubled Haven Healthcare nursing home chain was broken up in federal bankruptcy court, several of its former properties still suffer from poor occupancy rates, two others have shut down permanently and the state struggles to find a suitable bidder for three homes still in receivership.

Arthur N. Scherp Sr., 71, and Helene I. Scherp, 69, of Jewett City, were stopped by an Arkansas state police trooper Thursday on I-40. Police say Arthur Scherp told investigators he was paid $5,000 for making the trip.

The summer recreation program has been saved. Last week, school and recreation officials were able to work out a schedule to accommodate the five-week program on the school grounds despite the ongoing middle and elementary school construction project.

A Waterford woman working as a manager for Haven Health Care Management was allegedly embezzling funds from local nursing home resident trust funds.

A former bookkeeper at Haven Health Care faces charges of embezzling money from nursing home resident trust fund accounts as part of a larger federal investigation of the troubled nursing home chain.

A Jewett City man and his girlfriend were arrested Monday for allegedly selling and storing heroin at an apartment where a 9-year-old was living.

Jewett City resident troopers arrested three people Friday and charged them with conducting a drug deal "directly in front of the Wal-Mart entrance" at Lisbon Landing.

Regional Submitted by Teddie Sleight on 2009-04-22.   About $1 million of President Barack Obama's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act stimulus money will make its way to eastern Connecticut this summer, enabling area businesses to hire hundreds of low-income residents, ages 14-24, in summer jobs where they'll learn valuable work-related ...

A Norwich woman was arrested Thursday by police who found her in a rental car with crack cocaine and her 9-year-old child.

May 4th is Election Day in Connecticut. I know that makes absolutely no sense, but it is true.

Having family and friends and enjoying their company and support can easily be something we take for granted.A A The fact is there are many adults in our communities who do not have the love and support of family and personal friends.A There are men and women with disabilities who yearn for that personal contact, love and support that a friend can ...

When residents meet next week to discuss the proposed municipal budget for 2009-10, they will focus on a plan that requires a 0.5-mill increase in the tax rate.

For many, St. Sebastian School was more than a place to learn reading, writing and arithmetic.

A former Jewett City fire cadet has been sentenced to nine months in prison for taking a fire truck for a joy ride.

Gov. M. Jodi Rell's proposal to keep funding flat for Connecticut nursing homes is angering workers and directors at those facilities, who say it equates to a budget cut as their expenses skyrocket.

Many college students and their families are calling for a simpler Free Application for Federal Student Aid, saying it is overly complicated and impersonal.

Environmentalists here hope to generate the ultimate clean fuel from water passing through the city's Housatonic Wastewater Treatment Plant.

His infant twins were crying all the time. Their mother became sick, and 37-year-old Christopher T. Caruso of Jewett City couldn't handle the pressure.