Mystic News

This month, we've been touring easy-to-get-to destinations in Connecticut as part of our One Tank Trips series .

The beer industry in Connecticut is booming. You don't have to actually hit the Connecticut Beer trail to get a taste of some local brew.

Go ahead. Sit down in Mystic's Oyster Club and slurp down a few on the half-shell with your newest pal, the world-famous author.

Lisa Tepper Bates of Stonington, the executive director of the Mystic Area Shelter & Hospitality Inc., has been named the new executive director of the Connecticut Coalition to End Homelessness.

Patch reader Donna McHenry found a shark, which she said appeared to be dead, washed up on the far south west side of Sachuset Point Sunday.

The proposal calls for a two-story addition on the building's northwest corner that would provide 11 more residential units and expand the facility from 48,000 to 54,000 square feet.

On Wednesday June 12, opening night of Hill-Stead Museum's prestigious Sunken Garden Poetry Festival, winners and selected readers from eight Connecticut poetry programs will gather for the annual Fresh Voices reading in the historic Sunken Garden.

In the back, Sofia Priebe - at 4 feet, 8 inches - is the second-tallest girl in her class at Mystic Ballet.

The Highway Department and its subcontractors are scheduled to begin the first phase of the town's $3.5 million paving and road repair project next week.

People travel from all over the world to walk the Freedom Trail in Boston, see the autumn leaves turn in Vermont and New Hampshire and eat lobster in Maine.

The Connecticut River is a gem. So, how can cities capitalize on the view, when there are often highways or old buildings in the way? Months after creating a taskforce, Middletown is ready to spend some money on a non-profit group that will help city leaders plan how they can capitalize on the historic waterway.

In "The Protest of the Pharaoh's Daughter," a pharaoh's daughter struggles with her relationship with her father and his treatment of the Jews in ancient Egypt.

Nearly 40 residents and firefighters packed a meeting of the Poquonnock Bridge Fire District Thursday night, one shaking in anger as he spoke, saying the district is in chaos, the department needs a ladder truck for public safety, and the Fort Hill station should not be turned into a volunteer department.

Waterford and many other towns are looking for a few good men and women interested in fighting fires.

Mystic, CT - Mystic Seaport plans to kick off the summer season and prepare for the cracking of thousands of lobster claws at the 28th annual Lobster Days during Memorial Day Weekend, Saturday through Monday, May 25-27. Members of the Mystic Rotary Club will serve "lobsters-in-the-rough" from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day.

The new developer of the former Mystic Color Lab property outlined his new design for a luxury condominium project to the Stonington Planning and Zoning Commission Tuesday.

Located 1 mile from the Mystic Seaport, the Taber Inn in Mystic, Connecticut is 2 minutes' walk from Williams Beach Park.

The Velvet Mill will be a potpourri of activity Friday when two local Chambers of Commerce get together for the second annual Fusion fundraiser.

The next time you take a stroll through downtown Mystic you may notice more than just sale signs on some storefronts.

Sacred Heart University professor Jennifer Mattei scoops a mating pair of horseshoe crabs from a tidal pool on Milford Point in Milford on Wednesday, May 1, 2013.