Stonington News

Merrick Alpert, the Democrat looking for some traction in his lonely challenge to Sen.

The new, $34.6 million Armour Academic Center at the Westminster School is the kind of gleaming monument to achievement and prosperity that has made Connecticut prep schools so widely known.

Chris Noe, the petitioning candidate who ran unsuccessfully for Darien first selectman, served nearly three years in prison for first-degree assault after he was arrested on charges of shooting a man in Stonington in 1983.

Pigs are very intelligent and curious animals as evident as one of "The Boys" takes a closer look at the photographer while he grazes through one of the 1/2 acre pens setup on Footsteps Farm in Stonington where the pigs forage on acorns and roots.

The Quiambaug Fire Department has told the town and that it would like Groton Fire Alarm to begin dispatching its calls instead of the police department.

The Ledge Light Health District has opened registration for its H1N1 vaccine clinics to children aged 5 to 18 with high-risk medical conditions, including asthma, blood disorders, cancer, diabetes, heart disease, immune disorders, kidney disease, liver disease, lung disease and neurological disease.

Chris Noe, the petitioning candidate running for first selectmen, served nearly three years in prison for first-degree assault after he was arrested on charges of shooting a man in Stonington in 1983.

Six of the seven candidates running for the four spots on the Board of Education appeared at an informal forum Wednesday night, with many of them talking about how best to reach out to residents with information in an effort to prevent the annual cuts to the proposed school budget.

Robert C. Luna, 22, of 43 Denison Ave., Mystic, was charged Saturday with driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs.

Beverly Turner, 30, of 40 Hawthorne Drive, was charged Thursday with third-degree larceny and conspiracy to commit third-degree larceny.

I was pleased to read in The Day last month that the town of Groton has opened a new bicycle way, the G&S Trolley Trail, following the path of the old trolley line.

A 21-year-old North Stonington man was identified Friday as the armed gunman who robbed a McDonald's restaurant in Hartford Thursday and later took his own life.

The man had told family members he was traveling to Hartford to commit a robbery, then take his own life, according to law enforcement officials.

Ia TMve said it so many times when I cook: Simple is always better. Sure, sometimes I get mired down in complex recipes, but a handful of great ingredients with just the right touch of care always bring the greatest rewards.

Even though Guilford Whaling Capt. Fredrick Weld died in 1893, his heirs kept his personal belongings in the attic of a building on the Guilford green.

It's been awhile since Massachusetts could run with Connecticut on the college hardwood, but the Bay State trounces Nutmeggers on another front: trash and recycling.

A North Stonington psychologist is accused of having an inappropriate affair with the wife of one patient and of violating confidentiality rules with another.

The Chamber of Commerce of Eastern Connecticut is pleased to announce Dr. Raymond B. Johnson as the 2009 recipient of the William Crawford Distinguished Service Award.

Stonington - Incumbent Democratic First Selectman Ed Haberek has raised $10,620 in campaign funds so far compared to $6,860 for his Republican challenger Ed McCabe.

As the new H1N1 vaccine makes its way into Connecticut, flu clinics are popping up all over the state and they are going to be vaccinating the youngest residents first.