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A large sign off I-384 that welcomes people to town has been vandalized for the third time in about two weeks, a public works supervisor said Monday.

Lou's Auto Sales & Upholstery, the Center Street business that was destroyed after heavy snowfall in January 2011, is being rebuilt.

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A hearing set for tonight on a school board member's race-related comments about another board member has been postponed.

Tyrone Garrett's father wasn't around while he was growing up. So when Garrett's girlfriend, Whitney Hammond, told him she was pregnant, he knew he had to make a change.

The two, from Manchester, Conn., began their trek April 20, headed for Huntington Beach, Calif., hoping to make it there by mid December.

Harriet Chace, who died at the age of 96 on May 21, was a nurse by profession, and by nature.

At his heaviest in 2010, Tyrone Garrett weighed 335 pounds. Even though he was only in his mid-20s, his blood pressure and cholesterol were dangerously high.

The School Modernization and Reinvestment Team Revisited has recommended, and the school board has approved, plans to reconfigure elementary schools into a kindergarten to fourth-grade model and to establish a fifth- and sixth-grade academy combining Bennet Academy with the vacant Cheney Building.

The school board approved application for a state grant for a new fifth- and sixth-grade academy, and voters likely will see a spending question in November.

Year after year children return to summer camps, to spend time with "camp" friends, participate in special activities and just have fun.

Board of education member Michael Crockett publicly apologized Monday night for making "racially insensitive" remarks about a fellow board member Speaking at the school board meeting in Lincoln Center , Crockett apologized to Ron Atwater, the board's only African American member, and the people of Manchester, especially African-American residents.

This is the statement released by Manchester Board of Education member Ron Atwater Monday regarding accusations that another board member, Michael Crockett, had made "racially insensitive" remarks at public meetings: Over the past two weeks, I've heard from members in the community who have been very concerned that a public figure may have made ... (more)

Onyx Whiskey Adam von Gootkin, left and Peter Kowalczyk, co-founders of Onyx Spirits Co., fill the first barrel of whiskey on June 7, 2013.

Cinestudio, 300 Summit St. at Trinity College in Hartford, is holding a special sneak preview of episode 1 of Season 3 of the HBO series "True Blood" on Friday, June 14, at 7 p.m. Admission is free, but pre-registration is required.

Amy F. Radikas, who was picked from a field of 34 applicants, will become assistant superintendent of curriculum and instruction in July, according to a news release sent Monday.

His latest work, unveiled Thursday, is a pencil drawing of Mayor Leo Diana. Weiss donated the portrait to the people of Manchester, and it will hang in town hall, General Manager Scott Shanley said Friday.

The previous estimate for finishing the $4.5 milllion project, according to a report to the board of directors on May 7, was mid-July.

A pasta dinner fundraiser to benefit Iraq War veteran Sandra Lee is set for tonight at the Army and Navy Club on Main Street.

It now appears it will bring beer. By August, he will be one of the owners of Top Shelf Brewing Co., a new craft brewery in the historic Hilliard Mills complex.