Redding News

Hea TMs supposed to make the law, but instead Newtown Police arrested a state lawmaker for breaking the law.

Twenty-seven tickets, each involving a $37 fine, were given to motorists for not wearing seat belts since Newtown police began an enforcement operation Monday.

Brought up in Norwalk and raised in the city's public school system, Cheryl Kemeny never knew that her hometown played such a significant role in the Revolutionary War.

A woman quit her teaching job that paid $94,996 just after she was caught in a police sting stealing $20 from another teacher's purse, according to Wilton authorities.

The dead deer decomposing beyond Lynn Gorfinkle's back deck after her husband sent away a hunter without his trophy last month has mysteriously disappeared.

A Redding woman quit her job as a Wilton school teacher Monday after police said she was allegedly caught on videotape stealing $20 from another teacher's purse.

Dagny Mathiasen Williams and Thomas Wilcox Bronson were married May 16, at St. Thomas the Apostle Church in West Hartford, Conn.

This year's special election for the town's judge of probate was highly contested because of its impact on next year's election.

John has an acoustic set planned for Thursday, November 12, from 7 to 9 pm. Then PHIL & HARRISON will co-headline on Friday night, the 13th, also starting at 7. THE HIP REPLACEMENTS, performing classic rock, will follow on Saturday, 7:30 to 9:30 pm.

From her seat inside Jacqueline's restaurant Tuesday afternoon, 82-year-old Ada Cole could see the Bethel United Methodist Church across the street.

The project, called Twain Connections, is just that. It involves finding connections Twain made here during his remarkable life as a writer, humorist and philosopher.

Shelton Intermediate School students can forget about the fall dance scheduled Friday, at least for now.

Kevin Kinyon, 43, and Michael Caldwell, 39, feel they have a really good gig. In fact, they say they've had 80,000 of them since launching their Web site, www.GigMasters.com , in 1997.

On an empty plot of land near the northeastern corner of the Sherwood Island Connector and Greens Farm Road, some shards of artifacts excavated last month tell a story about the former site of the West Parish Meeting House.

Each of the 1,000 tulip bulbs planted in Seymour-Redding Elementary School's new Field of Dreams is a promise - a promise from each student to remain drug and alcohol free.

Just read about this place in the paper the other day and yesterday we were down in Fairfield County driving around to many estate sales and we ended up in Redding for lunch at the Redding Road House.

Mark Twain was not big on anniversaries. "What ought to be done to the man who invented the celebrating of anniversaries? Mere killing would be too light," he observed.

A 46-year-old woman was arrested after police investigated a Tuesday night motor vehicle accident involving a driver who allegedly left the scene.

After a six-month search for a new superintendent, the Region 9 Board of Education unanimously appointed Michael Cicchetti to the position.

There are little to no surprises in the endorsements for this year's elections in Redding.