Old Saybrook News

A firefighter from the Flanders Fire Department sprays hot spots as crews work to extinguish a kitchen fire with extensive damage at a home located at 27 Brainard Road in East Lyme, Sunday, July 13, 2014.

"CBS Sunday Morning" heads to the coast for its annual summer-at-the-shore edition tomorrow.

The Amistad is sailing for New London and was south of Old Saybrook as of 10 a.m., after leaving its dock in New Haven this morning.

A Middletown woman told police she used a torn bed sheet to choke a man to death at the Branford Motel on July 3 because she was being physically abused, according to an arrest warrant.

Scott Van Pelt @notthefakeSVP: That's one helluva letter. Pitch perfect. Home represents something special to all of us...he went home.

New Children's Art Workshops! Workshops offered for children Wednesday July 16th, 30th, and Aug. 6th 10:00 a.m. -10:45 a.m. ages 4-7 and from 11:15 a.m.-12:30 p.m. for children ages 8-10.

Essex Art Association is having its last juried show of the season "Less is More".

At least once a summer, , I have to have a lobster roll - preferably consumed at a picnic table with a salt water view.

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.