Old Mystic News

Genealogy makes a great hobby. As soon as I retired from teaching, I decided to try my hand at tracing my family roots.

A day of yard work and landscaping turned deadly for a Mystic man who became pinned between a mini-excavator and a tree in his backyard Tuesday afternoon.

A 63-year-old Ledyard woman whose truck rolled over after being struck by another vehicle was listed in stable condition Sunday night at Hartford Hospital after being transported there by LifeStar helicopter.

Ed Storm's South Anguilla Road home has been burglarized before. But the Stonington resident of nearly 55 years said it was still unnerving to hear from police who alerted residents to a pair of break-ins in Storm's neighborhood Wednesday night.

Police found a missing man they were searching for late Wednesday night and early Thursday morning in the Old Mystic section of town.

Financial troubles hit the Mystic Indoor Tennis in Old Mystic. The companya s owner, Sports & Wellness LLC has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

Sport & Wellness LLC, owner of Mystic Indoor Tennis in Old Mystic, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, but the club plans to remain open, manager Beth Albrikes said Tuesday.

A 49-year-old man was killed in a mobile home fire in Mystic early Monday morning.

Firefighters quickly doused a strong but short-lived fire at a Sandy Hollow Road house Wednesday night.

Professional fitness trainer Greg Drab, left, co-owner of Advantage Fitness Training in Mystic, works with client Steven Majeika of Westerly at the fitness center.

Greg Drab is co-owner, with Calvin McCoy, of Advantage Personal Training in Old Mystic and East Lyme.

Derek Berube of Pawcatuck had begun his apprenticeship as a custom sailmaker at Halsey-Lidgard Sailmakers in Old Mystic in 2005 when a sail tack came loose and embedded in his left eye.

MYSTIC Vivian Volovar, a resident of Old Mystic, fished for lobsters for 28 years off the coast of Mystic and around the waters of Fishers Island.