Niantic News

About 30 local members of the Communications Workers of America union, joined by Mayor Daryl Justin Finizio and state Rep. Ernest Hewett, protested today outside the AT&T call center on State Street, saying corporate greed was driving a move to shift local employees to New Haven.

A meeting of East Lyme Area Special Education PTO will be held from 6:30 to 7:45 p.m. June 19 at the East Lyme Senior Center, 37 Society Road in Niantic.

Allison Nowicki, 1, of Tolland stops Saturday to enjoy a fresh strawberry as families take advantage of warm, sunny weather to pick their own at Scott's Yankee Farmer in East Lyme.

Road projects River Bridge Road, Route 422 to Route 724, Amity and Union townships: bridge closed.

A meeting of East Lyme Area Special Education PTO will be held from 6:30 to 7:45 p.m. June 19 at the East Lyme Senior Center, 37 Society Road in Niantic.

A Niantic man was arrested on June 3 after police said he stole eight sets of silver Tiffany & Co.

The Zoning Commission has unanimously voted to deny a revised application to build an affordable housing development in a light-industrial zone by Capital Drive and West Main Street in Niantic.

Business-supplies distributor Consumers Interstate Corp. has announced the acquisition of Niantic-based New London Tape Distribution Co.

Michael C. Langshaw, 45, of 16A Pleasant Drive Extension, Niantic, was charged Saturday with driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs, failure to grant the right of way at an intersection and two counts of possession of a controlled substance.

United Airlines threw off a Niantic woman from a midnight flight to Hartford on April 9 because she was acting sleepy.

Trish Czelusniak, right, of Niantic listens while Jennifer London Lacker of J. London Appraisals in Stonington tells her about her painting during the antique appraisals Thursday at the Garde Arts Center in New London.

Trish Czelusniak, right, of Niantic listens while Jennifer London Lacker of J. London Appraisals in Stonington tells her about her painting during the antique appraisals Thursday at the Garde Arts Center in New London.

East Lyme A ceremony scheduled for Friday to mark the completion of the Niantic River rail bridge replacement project has been postponed because of the threat of inclement weather.

The Waterford High School class of 1960 has scheduled a class picnic event and its members are inviting the classes of '61, '62 and '63 to participate.

The story of the expansion and consolidation of the town's schools has been installed on five poster boards behind a glass case in the town's library.

In the height of the midday heat Thursday, a group of men worked to raise the obelisk that had fallen off a memorial for Edwin Church, a 19th century whaling captain, at Williams and Church Cemetery.

East Lyme The Niantic branch of the Bank of America was evacuated this afternoon following discovery of a suspicious package that police later determined was left inadvertently behind by a customer.

Some folks may have been playing a little hookie Thursday. The sun inspired many to head to the beach.

No prisoner has been in the Niantic jail - aka York "Correctional" Institution - longer than Bonnie Jean Foreshaw, a battered and sexually-abused woman who has somehow managed to survive and hold on to her humanity.

A proposal to create a nursery for infants of women inmates at York Correctional Institution has gotten cautious endorsement from two legislative committees, but lawmakers want to know why the price tag is as much as $14 million over two years.