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Friday Jul 3 | The Day

Dispute over $15 ends with sailor dead

A sailor stationed at the Naval Submarine Base is dead and a Groton man is charged with assault after a dispute over $15 in a Preston bar early last Friday morning.

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Thu Jul 02, 2009

Hartford Courant

Eastern Connecticut: EASTCONN To Open Driver Ed School In Danielson

Regional Submitted by Teddie Sleightt on 2009-07-01.   EASTCONN is opening a new driver education school in Danielson, offering classes for both teens and adults.

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Mon Jun 29, 2009

WTNH

Severe Thunderstorm Warning

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN KENT COUNTY IN RHODE ISLAND... NORTHWESTERN WASHINGTON COUNTY IN RHODE ISLAND... SOUTHEASTERN WINDHAM COUNTY IN NORTHERN CONNECTICUT... THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF PLAINFIELD... * UNTIL 845 PM EDT * AT 748 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER ...

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Sat Jun 27, 2009

The Day

The 395 Pile Up

Michael Costanza was a reporter for The Day and for the Mystic River Press. He now teaches fourth grade in North Stonington, where students know him as the teacher who eats a lot.

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Fri Jun 19, 2009

Hartford Courant

WindhamLocal Students Honored

Submitted by Charlene Durham on 2009-06-19.   High school seniors from Chaplin, Danielson, North Grosvenor, Plainfield, Putnam, Windham and Woodstock were recognized as the state's top scholar-athletes at the 2009 Connecticut Association of Schools Scholar-Athlete Banquet sponsored by McDonald's. A 26-year sponsor of the program with a ...

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Sun Jun 07, 2009

Hartford Courant

GOP State Central Committee Leader's Role Fuels Debate

The battle over a massive power plant in eastern Connecticut that would burn construction debris and convert it to energy has shaped up largely along predictable lines.

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Wed Jun 03, 2009

WTIC-TV Hartford

Fire damages Plainfield Restaurant

Fire Crews are on the scene of a fire at Oconnor's Steak & Seafood restaurant in Plainfield.

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Fri May 29, 2009

WTNH

No plea deal in Plainfield homicide

A Connecticut man accused of breaking into his former girlfriend's to fatally stab her has turned down a plea deal.

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Sat May 09, 2009

Daily Chronicle

Church offers bikers chance to sanctify bikes

The Rev. John Burton of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Windham, Conn. blesses the Rev.

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Thu May 07, 2009

Insurance Journal West

Connecticut Boy Dies after Accident at Local Skate Park

Police in Plainfield, Connecticut say the bicycle death of a 13-year-old boy over the weekend is being investigated as an accident.

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Wed Apr 22, 2009

The Day

Plainfield Power Plant To Try Again For State Loan

The backers of a 37.5-megawatt biomass energy plant proposed for Plainfield will seek a $500,000 loan from the Connecticut Clean Energy Fund at a meeting next week of the fund's board of directors, in a return to the same panel that denied a $2.5 million request for financing assistance in March.

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Sat Apr 18, 2009

Hartford Courant

Town Information

Taken from Plainfield, Canterbury was incorporated October 1703. Area is 40.2 sq.

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Thu Apr 16, 2009

News Times

Conn. state police arrest 2 in diesel fuel theft

Two men, including one from Massachusetts, have been charged with stealing thousands of gallons of diesel fuel from a northeastern Connecticut company.

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Wed Apr 15, 2009

WTNH

Wood-burning power plant gets OK

Connecticut's Department of Environmental Protection has cleared the way for construction of a wood-burning power plant in Plainfield.

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Sat Apr 11, 2009

Hartford Courant

Eastern ConnecticutApplications Being Accepted Quinebaug

Applications Being Accepted Quinebaug Regional Submitted by Teddie Sleight on 2009-03-03.   Current 9th-grade students from northeastern Connecticut are encouraged to apply for the 2009-2010 school year at Quinebaug Valley Middle College High School.

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Thu Apr 09, 2009

North East Racing

Christopher Pole Winner for Icebreaker at Thompson Speedway

Thompson, CT : Ted Christopher of Plainfield, CT, who has been hot behind the wheel with a host of wins already in 2009, started his Whelen Modified Tour title defense in style by winning the Coors Light Pole in qualifying for the Icebreaker 2009 at Thompson Speedway.

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Tue Apr 07, 2009

Worcester Telegram & Gazette

Relaxed TC breaks the ice

After getting over the hump to finally win last year's NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour championship, Ted Christopher felt like the pressure was off heading into yesterday's season-opening Icebreaker 150 at Thompson International Speedway.

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Sun Apr 05, 2009

WVIT-TV

Gun Permits Shoot Up

Business has been good at The Outpost Guns & Ammo store in Montville. "It's just a sign of the times," owner Carl Delvecchio said.

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Sat Apr 04, 2009

The Hartford Courant

Eco-Terror Threat: Connecticut DEP Finds Chemical 'Of Concern' At Wood-Burning Plant Site

The state's environmental agency won't name the chemical, citing what is now an active criminal investigation.

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Thu Apr 02, 2009

Hartford Courant

Eco-Terrorism Threat In Plainfield Under Investigation

After receiving a letter from someone claiming to be from "Earth First" on Tuesday, the state Department of Environmental Protection sent an environmental conservation officer and an emergency response team to the project site, said agency spokesman Dennis Schain.

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