Plainfield News

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.

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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