Roxbury News

The 35th annual Roxbury Pickin' 'n Fiddlin' Contest will be held July 11 at 3:30 p.m. at Hurlburt Park on Apple Lane.

'We came here originally simply because Daniel had a house here and always wanted to spend as much time as possible here.

Newtowner Sharon Epple Beitel has come full circle, figuratively speaking. Newtown's Board of Education voted to appoint the veteran educator who got her start at Head O' Meadow Elementary School in 1986, to become the new principal at the Reed Intermediate School.

Family, friends and coworkers gathered at Pond Road on Saturday to remember longtime town volunteer David Swain, and to dedicate a wellhead in his memory.

A 45-year-old man was rescued in wild wind and wave conditions in Cape Cod Bay yesterday after he lost his sailboard off Chapin Beach at around noon.

Officials on the Cape pull off three water rescues, including saving two teens caught on the roof of their nearly submerged car in Wellfleet.

Roxbury playwright A. R. Gurney has rightly earned a reputation for sharply depicting the ways of wayward WASPs in New England life.

Linda Archer enjoys a walk in the Bee Brook area alongside the Shepaug River with her dog Dexter.

Nine parades are scheduled for the Memorial Day weekend in the Greater New Milford area.

An informed citizenry is essential to democracy. When the government tries to limit access to information or make exceptions, it is heading in the wrong direction.

When the Board of Education in Region 12 meets in July the panel will be missing its last two chairmen who have been unseated by challengers.

When Washington residents vote on the Region 12 school budget May 5, they will also vote for four of seven candidates for school board seats.

"The Fourth Wall," a comedy about the blurring of life and theater, opens Friday at 8 p.m. at TheatreWorks, 5 Brookside Ave., adjacent to CVS, off Route 202, New Milford.

Ten towns in greater Danbury will receive just under $300,000 in federal stimulus money that will be used to boost law enforcement, Gov.

The Region 12 Board of Education is recommending Superintendent Bruce Storm's $20.8 million 2009-10 budget.

At Mine Hill in Roxbury, bats gather in the fall by the thousands to hibernate in the shaft of an old iron mine there.

Two women suffered minor injuries after a two-car crash Wednesday. According to the state police, Georgia Hynes, 47, of New Milford, was driving her 2009 Mercedes C-Class on Route 67 at about 1 p.m. when a 2006 Ford E-250 attempted to enter Route 67 at the Chalybes Road West intersection.

Two book-signings with Roxbury author and illustrator Billy Steers will be held in the coming days in Woodbury and New Milford.

For enhancing activities in, on and around the 149-mile Housatonic River, the awarding of about $7 million in grants this week is indeed good news for the region.

The bells toll for Connecticut probate court Monday when the General Assembly's Judiciary committee begins considering of legislation that could finally reform a system that has dodged modernization for ...