Old Saybrook News

Candidates who were early to qualify for public financing have received and started spending their taxpayer--funded grants in preparation for this year's primary and general elections.

Ex-charter school boss Michael Sharpe's lease with his former employer has raised new questions about how much he has been paying to live in an Asylum Hill apartment owned by his government-subsidized, former education company.

Old Saybrook Emergency personnel have reopened one of the two lanes closed on Interstate 95 South because of a car fire Thursday evening, according to the state Department of Transportation.

Two officers had responded to the College Wood's area of the park on a report of a "vicious dog," police said.

A woman was issued a summons after allegedly leaving her 11-year-old daughter in the car on Middle Street Tuesday while she was in a store, police said.

No one was injured in the fire, which was reported shortly before 7 p.m., Fire Chief John Oates said Wednesday.

And the Field Work Has Begun: Last Wednesday a ground-breaking ceremony was held on the Old Saybrook High School football field to mark the start of the athletic facility upgrade project.

A Bristol man who stabbed to death his roommate and former boyfriend two years ago was sentenced Tuesday to 35 years in prison.

Voters Tuesday gave overwhelming approval for $3 million in bonding for the town's share of a planned $8 million purchase of the Preserve property, described as the "1,000 acre forest."

Three recent graduates won the High School Award for Excellence - called a student Emmy - from the National Academy of Television Arts and Science for a video they produced, directed and edited.

The child was left unattended inside a parked vehicle for "an extended period of time," according to police.

Like his original adoring fans, the boy wizard is all grown up in this new 1500-word chapter from author J.K. Rowling, which was published on the site Pottermore.com on Tuesday.

Many residents and visitors treasure this region's shoreline not because of what people have built here, such as housing developments, highways, shopping centers and factories, but for what they've preserved.

Sammie LeMire of Moodus competes at the gymnastics Connecticut State Championships, Regional Championships and the Eastern National Championships.

U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal came to the Old Saybrook Green on Monday, July 7, to urge Old Saybrook voters to vote "Yes" in a referendum to grant $3 million of town monies to help purchase 930 undeveloped acres in the open land known as The Preserve.

The landmarks and historical sites that dot the Connecticut landscape are as plentiful and diverse as the state's beautiful scenery.

The cabinet-sized library, painted bright blue with tiny pink hearts, holds mysteries, magazines and picture books that passers-by can pick up on their way along Hartford Avenue to the beach.

Connecticut State Police began patrolling the holiday weekend midnight on July 3 and checkpoints around the state will continue until midnight on July 6, police said.

About 80 members of Peanut Pals, the national collectors' association of Planters Mr. Peanut memorabilia, will convene July 9-12 at the Crowne Plaza hotel in Cromwell.

The Connecticut Broadcasters Association has selected an incoming Middlesex Community College student as one of its 2014 scholarship recipients.