Stonington News

Heather Gillies won praise for her work as a children's librarian at the Stonington Free Library.

Police Chief J. Darren Stewart told some of the town's fire chiefs and ambulance company officials Thursday night that he would like to hire a dispatch supervisor and explore improvements in technology that could solve many of the dispatch problems they have complained about.

Connecticut state police say an eight-hour search for a driver who went missing after a car crash ended when authorities found a woman hiding in her North Stonington home.

Thanksgiving is almost here, and that means Chanukah and Christmas are not far away, and if like almost everyone else the holidays mean gatherings with your relatives, well, have I got a book for you.

The town has identified 25 large, decaying trees along scenic North Main Street that need to be cut down.

Members of the state board that oversees psychologists agreed Monday to suspend the license of North Stonington therapist Reuben Spitz, who was accused of disclosing confidential information about a patient to a woman with whom he had an affair.

Every year about 9,000 films are submitted to the organizers of the famed Sundance Film Festival, but just a few hundred of them are shown during the 10-day event.

Above, Adele Erisman, a lifelong environmental advocate and an original activist involved in the founding of the Avalonia Land Conservancy in 1968, enjoys a piece of birthday cake as she celebrates her 100th birthday at her North Stonington home with friends on Wednesday.

On 11-13-09 at approximately 1:25 am, the Connecticut State Police at Troop E, responded to a report of a robbery at the Xtra Mart Convenience Store, located at 226 Norwich Westerly Road, in North Stonington.

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Stonington police are investigating an apparent suicide after a local woman reported missing early Thursday morning was found dead on the property of a Mystic business.

The borough Board of Warden and Burgesses is asking the town and state to install a four-way stop at the entrance to the Route 1A viaduct, a plan that has the support of Police Chief J. Darren Stewart.

Rob Simmons was running in a special election in June of 1991 for the state House of Representatives when a Republican legislator came to town to help him campaign.

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.