Old Lyme News

The Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme, Connecticut has received an Award of Merit for its history blog, "From the Archives" from the Connecticut League of History Organizations.

Old Saybrook Garden Club scholarship chair, Betty O'Brien, awards $1,000 scholarships to, from left to right: Christopher Malin and Nicholas Dibble.

Who says you can't reinvent history? Or, at least, replant it? On Sunday, June 23, the team behind Connecticut's Historic Gardens marks 10 years of doing just that with Connecticut's Historic Gardens Day at 14 historic locations throughout the state.

"Dialogue: Representation and Abstraction" is the theme of the current exhibition by the Artists of Gallery One .

Over the past week, you've flooded the inbox with pictures of flooding. You showed us roads that looked more like rivers, and you found parks that resembled ponds.

The Old Lyme Police Department is warning residents of a scam in which unknown individuals are going door-to-door claiming to be from the power company.

The fifth annual GardenFest at the Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme is a ten-day celebration of the site's historic gardens, featuring special events, displays, demonstrations, and family activities.

Old Lyme, Conn. June 12, 2013 Audio specialist Sennheiser announced the availability of the latest product from its distributed brand K-array.

It is estimated that there will be more than 3,000 cases of breast cancer diagnosed in CT in 2013 and that almost 500 will die from the disease.

The Lyme Art Association presents "Old Lyme Landscapes: A Salute to Our Founders," opening June 14. The exhibition, which features beachscapes, landscapes and architectural scenes of Lyme, Old Lyme and environs, runs through July 28. Among the pieces on view is Kent Winchell's "Farm with Clouds" .

Jennifer LaBella of Middletown watches while Joey LaBella of Wethersfield, no relation, uses one of the new kiosks to pay for his parking space on Hartford Avenue in Old Lyme on Wednesday.

Whether running on the cross-country team or serving as a student representative to the school board, the Lyme-Old Lyme High School senior said he has always gravitated toward new experiences.

The fifth annual GardenFest at the Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme is a ten-day celebration of the site's historic gardens, featuring special events, displays, demonstrations, and family activities.

From June 8 through September 23, 2013 the Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme, Connecticut, hosts Animal/Vegetable/Mineral: An Artist's Guide to the World.

The fifth annual GardenFest at the Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme is a ten-day celebration of the site's historic gardens, featuring special events, displays, demonstrations, and family activities.

More than 1,500 police officers, Special Olympians, and other athletes will carry the torch through hundreds of towns.

On June 6, 2013, at 8:00 AM, Connecticut's Department of Energy and Environmental Protection will launch a new "Instant Award" method for issuing permits to hunt deer on certain state properties and controlled hunt areas, replacing the paper application lottery system used historically.

Miss Florence Griswold's restored flower garden will provide an appropriate backdrop to the upcoming Gardenfest events at the Florence Griswold Museum.

The fifth annual GardenFest at the Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme is a ten-day celebration of the site's historic gardens, featuring special events, displays, demonstrations, and family activities.

Joshua Zabik, 4, of Suffield enjoys a mint chocolate chip ice cream waffle cone Sunday at the A.C. Petersen Drive-In, formerly the HallMark Drive-In, on Route 156 in Old Lyme.