Monroe News

Putting on their hard hats , from left, Tom Augustino, Mother Jana Zawieja, Sister Barbara Jean Wojnicki, Sister Teresa Mika, and John Kimball, dig in for the groundbreaking of the new convent in Monroe, Conn.

School and town leaders have forged a partnership for a new school security model that will provide a combination of 18 armed and unarmed security guards for the seven district schools.

Monroe Turnpike Associates has sold a fully leased strip shopping center at 447 Monroe Turnpike to Parkway Plaza LLC in Norwalk for $3.3 million, or $247 per square foot.

Donelle Toner poses in her candy shop, Grandma Josie's, in Monroe, Conn. on Wednesday February 26, 2014.

SavATree & SavaLawn, leading providers of quality tree, shrub and lawn care, today announced a merger with Country Green of Monroe, Connecticut.

Felix Romeo Torres, of Bridgeport, looks out the window as he rides Greater Bridgeport Transit's new Route 20 bus which provides service to Monroe via Rt.

On Friday, February 21, 2014, J.P. Sredzinski filed paperwork with the State Elections Enforcement Commission and the Monroe Town Clerk's office to make official his run for the 112th State Representative seat.

Ranging in diameter from 0.3 to 6 mm, this line of solid carbide milling cutters has integrated cooling via internal coolant channels.

The Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection announced the winners of its photo contest for the cover of the 2014 Angler's Guide, with finalists from Darien, Farmington, Monroe and Simsbury.

MONROE, CT - Webb Mountain Discovery Zone is pleased to announce that online registration is now open for "Discovering Spring", an enrichment program for preschool students and their parents or caregivers beginning in March! Due to requests from parents, additional classes have been added to the weekly preschool program in addition to Discovery ... (more)

A press release issued Feb. 19 from state Rep. Debralee Hovey : State Rep. Debralee Hovey announced today that she is retiring from public service and will not run for re-election in 2014.

Connecticut office will submit grant application for federal monies to assist Newtown in its mental-health and school-security needs.

The shed at the Bethel Highway Department that holds the salt and sand used for the roads during winter weather is empty of salt, Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2014.

Donelle Toner was an elementary school teacher in Milford for a number of years.

A man hitchhikes along route 63 as snow falls Thursday, Feb. 13, 2014, in Naugatuck, Conn., as a winter storm rolled through the area.

Since the recession, retail development in southwestern Connecicut largely has been limited to first-floor space in new apartment buildings and retrofitting vacant big-box stores.

Kevin Solli, whose engineering firm designed the project, talks about plans for a 161,000-square-foot retail project near Swiss Army corporate headquarters in Monroe.

School and town leaders appear to be on the same page when it comes to making sure there is adequate security at each of the district's seven schools, including the temporarily relocated Sandy Hook Elementary School in Monroe.

The shadow over the school board's unanimous budget vote to hold off on any spending increase for the 2014-15 fiscal year is a lingering debate over school security expenses.