North Stonington News

The Mashantucket Pequot Tribe's incumbent treasurer will serve as its new chairman, and many observers believe he will be a big success.

State Attorney General Richard Blumenthal called Wednesday for an overhaul of the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs' land-annexation process.

Ledyard Mayor Fred Allyn Jr.'s first meeting with Rodney Butler, chairman-elect of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribe, was a jocular one.

Voters across the state once again get the opportunity Tuesday to have a say on things like how often the roads get plowed, the maximum number of students in a classroom, hours the local library is open, and how high, if at all, their local taxes will increase in 2010.

First selectman and selectmen candidates see tough budgets ahead and said it will take strong leadership to get the town ready for economic recovery.

It's autumn in New England, and as the leaves change, my appetite is changing with them.

Robert C. Luna, 22, of 43 Denison Ave., Mystic, was charged Saturday with driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs.

Hartford police have identified the man who robbed a McDonald's restaurant and then shot himself to death as 21-year-old Kyle Smith of North Stonington.

The man had told family members he was traveling to Hartford to commit a robbery, then take his own life, according to law enforcement officials.

Even though Guilford Whaling Capt. Fredrick Weld died in 1893, his heirs kept his personal belongings in the attic of a building on the Guilford green.

A North Stonington psychologist is accused of having an inappropriate affair with the wife of one patient and of violating confidentiality rules with another.

Beginning Tuesday, the Ledge Light Health District will administer the H1N1 flu vaccine to children ages 2 to 4 from East Lyme, Groton, Ledyard, Lyme, Old Lyme, New London, North Stonington, Stonington and Waterford.

Town officials in Connecticut are urging Sens. Christopher Dodd and Joe Lieberman to oppose a bill that would allow the federal government to place land into trust for certain American Indian tribes.

Top elected officials in Ledyard, North Stonington and Preston are urging defeat of a bill that would restore the U.S. government's authority to place land into trust for Indian tribes that gained federal recognition after 1934.

On a gorgeous fall morning earlier this week, Ireland and Montana looked like two dogs out for a romp at a local dog park with their owners.

It could be the line from God Bless America "From the mountains, to the prairies, To the oceans, white with foam." Maybe for me that's the reason a view is not a view unless the ocean can be seen in it.

North Stonington - The town registrars' office will hold special hours Oct. 17 and 27 for residents wishing to register in time to vote in the Nov.

Jewett City and North Stonington have some new "residents" coming to town. State police Lt.

Megan Mary Husk and Brian Wayne Byassee were joined in marriage on Aug. 1, 2009.

A process to "land" the floating New England Village Special Design District Zone will begin Thursday when the Planning and Zoning Commission holds a public hearing on a proposal from the long-discussed Milltown Commons development at the rotary.