Redding News

Westporter Sam Gault, through Gault Inc., has donated countless funds to a myriad of local organizations over the years.

The ability to care for pets has reached a new level. Thanks to a bill Gov. M. Jodi Rell signed Tuesday, pet-owners can care for their pets after death.

Sitting elbow-to-elbow in a snug booth at the Sycamore Restaurant in Bethel, nationally known writers Jane and Michael Stern enjoy their lunch of the moment -- a hot dog and bean combo meal and Dagwood hamburger with homemade root beer.

The scent burgers grilling filled the air in the parking lot of the Branchville train station on Saturday.

Police have arrested a Ridgefield man for his involvement in a road rage incident that also resulted in the arrest of a Redding man last month.

Fire leveled a century-old Mountain Road farmhouse Monday, sending the occupants scrambling into the early morning darkness and taking the lives of seven dogs.

Her famous father called her willful, troubled and pathetic. Her older sisters were better known.

Stone walls deep in the Connecticut woods are commonplace -- proof of how long people have been living on the land here, of how, a couple of centuries ago, forest was pasture.

Sometimes staycations can stray from civilization. In other words, let's just say they need not involve a museum or art gallery.

It is truly a small world, as AFS student Arnold Geng discovered this past Saturday.

It's always fun when a new restaurant concept arrives in the midstate. The latest is Sandella's Flatbread Cafe.

Four local World War II veterans shared their military stories with students at Newtown High School on Tuesday, three days after the 65th anniversary of D-Day invasion of Normandy.

Emma Lowenberg doesn't usually write for fun. But when her experiences with an owl named Bernard kept coming to mind, she decided to write about them.

The Bethel Visiting Nurse Association would like to thank the individuals and businesses of Bethel, Newtown, Redding, Danbury and Brookfield for their support in making our annual fundraising event, "Breakfast for Care," a smashing success.

Donating bone marrow is not painful, yet only three of 10 patients receive the transplant they need to survive.

New Pond Farm, the award-winning educational center and working farm in West Redding, is will display artwork by Connecticut artists from Saturday to June 27.

The Ives Trail -- still incomplete three years after its official opening -- may get one of its major gaps filled, thanks to a midnight vote by the General Assembly.

Two men were arrested late Thursday after police said they forced their way into a Georgetown home and assaulted a man living there.

A Georgetown Story, a 30-minute documentary film, has been selected for the Connecticut Film Festival in Danbury.

Twelve new cases of the H1N1 swine flu have been confirmed in Connecticut.  The State Health Department's Public Health Laboratory says patients from Hartford, Fairfield, Greenwich, Monroe, Norwalk, Redding, Stamford and Weston  have tested positive for the virus,  bringing the total in the state to 208.