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For the first time in more than a decade, "Uncle Sam" wasn't on Milford Green this July 4 to join in the city's annual Independence Day bell-ringing ceremony.

Nobody at a public hearing Wednesday night seemed to like the idea of leasing city land in Eisenhower Park for a Verizon cell tower, but the intensity of the opposition depended on how close a speaker lived to the park.

A water cannon salute heralded their arrival Friday morning as nearly 100 people waited along the piers of Milford Landing.

The ongoing tug-of-war between the city Health Department and a Bridgeport Avenue hookah lounge is continuing as the lounge owner, forced to close for a second time, reviews his legal options.

Two members of the city's police force were promoted during ceremonies Monday. Sgt. Sean Moore was promoted to the rank of lieutenant and Detective Robert Riordan was promoted to sergeant.

People Submitted by Sean O'Leary on 2009-06-26.   Milford resident and Jonathan Law High School graduate Rachael Randolph at a June 8 reception at the Country Club in Farmington where she receives a college scholarships funded by the Hayley's Hope and Michaela's Miracle MS Scholarship Program.

Looking at the art work hanging on the walls at the Parsons Government Center, Henry "Chip" Czajkowski boasted that his son Nathanael is probably "the most talented [artist] that ever came through the Milford school system." While art is very subjective, Chip Czajkowski's high opinion of his 18-year-old son's art work is not just that of a proud ...

The city may need a "blight czar'' to enforce the existing regulations covering decrepit and unsafe buildings, according to some officials.

Winter is a slow time in the paving business, at least in New England. So Tim Day was a little surprised when he arrived for work on a Monday morning last January and couldn't find the big red dump truck he usually drove for Circle Asphalt Paving on Aldrich Road.

Milford police are on the hunt for a burglar who hit three homes last week. An alert neighbor caught the man on tape during one of the crimes.

The Bridgeport Avenue hookah lounge ordered to shut its doors last week was allowed by city health officials to reopen Friday, but faces a rigorous inspection if it does.

A hookah bar in Milford went up in smoke last week, but not because it burnt down.

Security camera footage from a neighbor's home may help capture a burglar, police said today.

State Police investigators have sought and received warrants to search the vehicles involved in a double-fatal crash June 13 in Orange between a Milford police cruiser and two Orange teens, who were killed in the collision.

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Comedienne Joan Rivers has her estate in New Milford, Conn. on the market for $6,500,000. Our friends over at the Real Estalker today beat us to the punch in writing about this listing , which is part of The Great Joan Rivers Property Sell-Off that hit its zenith recently with her $25,000,000 listing of her duplex condominium unit in Manhattan.

Escaping slaves, bootleggers, pirates, tragic drownings and heroic rescues, the western half of the city's waterfront has seen it all -- or at least people insist that it has.

The Milford coastline bordering Long Island Sound is a fairly amazing stretch of space.

Two New Haven residents have been charged with robbing a man at knife-point in a corridor of the Westfield Connecticut Post mall.

Two New York City men face charges of home improvement fraud here. Oswaldo Rivera, 38, of Elmont, New York and Stephen Modzelewski, 41, of Ozone Park, were released after they each posted a $100,000 bond following an appearance Wednesday in Milford Superior Court.