Old Saybrook News

Chairwoman Darlene Briggs of the Middlesex County Chamber of Commerce has announced the 2014 recipients of the chamber's Distinguished Citizen Award.

The Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center and Community Music School will host an open house for Kate's Camp for Kids, a performing arts summer camp program, on Monday, April 28 from 3 to 5 pm, at The Kate, 300 Main Street, Old Saybrook.

EH Community Lions will be performing eye screening of pre-school children, ages two through 5 at their respective pre-schools and children in Kindergarten and 1st grade the week of May 5. Children not enrolled in these programs may be tested at the Early Childhood Center in the Elementary School.

Kindly support our "Recycle for Diapers" electronics and metal drive by donating old non-working electronics and metal.

A ceremony has been scheduled at Van Buren Moody Elementary School to mark the official launch of "Sowing Seeds," a project to convert the school's two courtyards into outdoor classrooms dedicated to environmental education.

Literacy Volunteers Valley Shore is pleased to again exhibit in the Midd-Shore Association of Realtors Trade Show & Educational Extravaganza.

Literacy Volunteers Valley Shore, partnering with the Old Lyme Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library, invites you to join in celebrating World Book Night on Saturday, April 26 from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. The event will be held at the First Congregational Church, 2 Ferry Road, Old Lyme in the meeting room immediately following the Shoreline Soup Kitchen's ... (more)

The time comes in every person's life when he or she must put himself or herself to the ultimate test.

During Volunteer Appreciation week from April 20 through 26, Girl Scouts of Connecticut will honor the 18,000 volunteers that are an essential part to Girl Scouting in Connecticut.

Three Newtown residents are among the latest to add their signatures and support in opposition to Connecticut Senate Bill 405.

A year after Connecticut lawmakers voted to require the labeling of foods containing genetically modified organisms, the biggest roadblock to implementing the law could be New York's State Assembly.

A 68-year-old piano teacher was charged with sexual assault on Tuesday for allegedly touching students inappropriately during lessons, police said.

Easter Sunday Sunrise Service in the empty field on Quarry Hill Road, just past the School House Hill Lane intersection, 7 a.m., followed by coffee and potluck breakfast at the church parish house, 408 Quarry Hill Road, Haddam Neck.

Russell Library will host a free session on continuing education options on Thursday, April 24 from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Advisers from Trinity College , Middlesex Community College and the University of Hartford will give presentations and answer questions about going to back to school in pursuit of a degree or a new career.

Moving? Spring cleaning? Please call 860-663-1060 to arrange for pick up of quality items for this sale.

District administrators presented a $423 million budget Tuesday night that would add about 50 full-time positions to the city schools, including an English Language Learner coach, a special education director, a technology manager and an internship coordinator for high school students.

Portland Clean Energy Task Force has partnered with Sagewell, a leader in thermal image analyses and reporting, to provide Portland homeowners with a no-cost thermal image report to see where their home is losing energy.

The public is invited to the New England Society of Information Technology - Meriden 's makerspace and hackerspace, to celebrate NESIT's 4th anniversary on Saturday, April 19 from 2p.m. to 2 a.m. We will be celebrating with an open house and party at our location on the second floor of 290 Pratt Street in Meriden.

On Friday April 11 the Coginchaug Benchwarmers Association booster club held its first annual Dodgeball Tournament.

A high-ranking manager has been fired from a construction firm that's playing a key role in reconstructing service areas on Connecticut highways after he improperly obtained more than $50,000 worth of improvements to his home, the firm alleges in a lawsuit.