Monroe News

Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol," with a new perspective, opens Friday night at 8 at the Town Players Little Theatre on Orchard Hill Road, off Route 25 South in Newtown.

The town's highest elected official -- Republican first selectman-elect Pat Llodra -- is going to be sworn into office by the state's highest elected official, Gov.

A Thanksgiving food drive for local families is being organized by Save Our Stepney Task Force in conjunction with the town's food pantry.

When Ansonia Mayor Jim Della Volpe was first elected to office about 10 years ago, he quickly learned there was a huge difference between being a mayoral candidate and an actual mayor.

Republican Steve Vavrek doesn't have much time to savor becoming first selectman.

With a few notable exceptions, Tuesday was a bad day to be an incumbent. Across the region, voters sent mayors and first selectmen out the door in surprising numbers.

Announcement is made of the engagement of Heather A. Breslawski and James W. Adinolfi Jr.

From left, Jenna Linn of Monroe, Betty Ann Pjura and her sister Kim DiCicco, both of Shelton, ride the trails behind Pee Wee Horse Farm in Easton.

Citing issues such as unrealized developmental plans, a flawed revaluation and poor conditions of roads, Republicans are hoping to end a 14-year drought and take the first selectman's office with Steve Vavrek at the top of their ticket.

Business partners Anna Reis and Chris Dortenzio know a good thing when they see one.

"Being a good listener is the most important part of our business," said Barry Miller, owner of The Brush's End, a 25-year-old home improvement company on Padanaram Road in Danbury, with a second location in Monroe.

Trash in a garbage truck caught fire Tuesday morning, forcing police to shut down Main Street for three hours after learning there was a chance the truck could explode.

The contenders for the town's top job traded polite charges and countercharges Tuesday, with Republican Stephen Vavrek arguing that Democratic incumbent First Selectman Thomas Buzi hasn't done enough to foster economic development, and Buzi retorting that Monroe is doing well considering the suffering national economy.

The Trumbull Monroe Health District will hold several flu clinics this fall for seasonal flu.

Within 30 minutes, fires broke out at two Monroe bakeries owned by the same woman, police said.

State and local police are investigating a possible connection between a pair of early-morning fires in delicatessens -- one here on Purdy Hill Road and the other in Beacon Falls.

Alonzo Darby, of Bridgeport, decides against giving his 2 year old son, Chaz, right, the live H1N1 intranasal vaccine after reading the risks at the Department of Health clinic on Friday, Oct.

A routine trip to school turned into a nightmare for a Monroe man who says he was roughed up this week by police who mistook him for someone else wanted on burglary charges.

The prospect that the Jewish Home for the Elderly might relocate to a street across from his Church Hill Road home is none too pleasing to Robert Silva.

George "Doc" Gunther of Stratford, who holds the record as Connecticut's longest-serving legislator, will celebrate his 90th birthday soon.