Kent News

I've been feeling like I've come awake from a too-long nap, not really sure whether I've just been sleeping or if I've missed a decade or two.

Mahogany Memories' is the title of 24th annual Antique and Classic Boat Society show Saturday at the Connecticut River Museum in Essex.

Three people were taken to area hospitals after a head-on collision on Route 7 Saturday night.

Golden Globe-winning actress Lynn Redgrave is a breast cancer survivor. Her journey through treatments and recovery is documented in personal, yet relatable, photographs taken by her daughter, Annabel Clark.

Housatonic Valley Regional High School in Falls Village, which serves the town of Kent, has announced its valedictorian and salutatorian for the Class of 2008.

Kent, Connecticut. Another view of two of Joy Brown's ceramic sculptures. The pod is a large, hollow ball that joins dozens that Joy has made over the years.

Norfolk _ Over 13,000 utility customers throughout Connecticut still don't have power following a powerful storm last night.

In late February trouble came knocking at the modest door of the Alan Russell family.

Trumbull police say the boy was visiting a home on Old Hollow Road from Pennsylvania and died shortly before 5 p.m. Saturday.

The selectmen Tuesday night unanimously endorsed a plan to enroll the town in the Connecticut Clean Energy program provided by CL&P. Under the proposal, the town would be get a 1 KW solar panel for Kent Center ...

One of the state's major hiking trails can be found within 20 miles of almost everyone in Connecticut, and usually the distance to a good trail is much shorter than that, a few miles, at most.

Plans to construct a memorial to honor Kent veterans from the latter 20th century have moved forward with the unveiling of a proposed design and an imminent fund-raising campaign.

Now we finally know why the creative team nicknamed the season finale "frozen donkey wheel." Okay, maybe not.

Monday flags waved, people cheered and bands played along the festive streets of Kent.

Kent has a municipal budget for the next fiscal year but the process of getting it was not easy.

The Kent Historical Society is gearing up for a costume exhibit this summer, which will look at the theories behind fashion changes.

The Merryall Union Chapel on Chapel Hill Road in the Merryall section of New Milford has announced its schedule of services for the rest of the year. via The Greater New Milford Spectrum

The workshop will be from 9 a.m. to noon on Tuesday, at the ITBD Conference Center, 185 Main St. via Hartford Courant

“They like large stands of forest and we still have them here”

It's springtime, and the birding is easy and brilliant. It's the time of the year when the great annual flood of warblers -- small bright-colored birds that seem to never rest for more than a few seconds -- ... via The Greater New Milford Spectrum

“Outhouses have some of the same appeal that covered bridges and old barns have - they're rustic, they're pre-modern, and so they help contribute to the image of New England as a land of quaint small towns and farms with deep roots in the past”

An outhouse, on the other hand, probably won't appear in a chamber of commerce brochure. via WTIC-TV Hartford