Thompsonville News

Enfield is fortunate to have a large and talented pool of candidates this year for town council, most of whom have experience on other boards and commissions.

Students at the two high schools will host public forums involving candidates seeking election Nov.

A man wearing a costume robbed the Sovereign Bank at 800 Enfield St. around 11 a.m., police said.

Town council candidates for the Nov. 3 municipal elections will participate in a forum and question-and-answer session at the Voices for Thompsonville monthly meeting Thursday.

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Politics Submitted by Deborah Hoyt on 2009-10-05.   Dozens of area residents walked into the Freshwater Package Store on Enfield Street in the Thompsonville section of Enfield recently planning to make a simple purchase, but instead came away with something more -- the newfound privilege to vote in public elections.

A vacant house on North River Street was set on fire Thursday morning for the second time this year, said Thompsonville Fire Chief Frank Alaimo.

The Thompsonville Fire Department and its union reached an agreement to avoid laying off firefighters Tuesday night - less than two hours before a scheduled fire commission vote on the layoffs.

When the carpet mills were booming, Thompsonville was a world unto itself. Its streets were lined with stores, a post office, a Chinese laundry, markets, all crowded into handsome brick-and-wood buildings just spitting distance from the sprawling Bigelow mills beside the Connecticut River .

In photo, Robinson, the group's president, walks through her neighborhood with Wendy Lavoie, secretary, left, and Kelly Hemmeler, treasurer.

The Thompsonville Fire Department has trimmed up to $1 million from the cost of a new fire station, said Chief Frank Alaimo.

Firefighters quickly put out a Monday morning fire at a duplex in Enfield. Thompsonville Fire crews were dispatched to a fire at 16 B Northwood St.

Martha McLeon, the president of Asnuntuck Community College , will be the guest speaker at Thursday's Voices for Thompsonville meeting.

Submitted by Rosalind Swift on 2009-09-09.   Calling all Thompsonville parents from K through 12th grades to a meeting of the Thompsonville Educational Initiative on September 22nd at Lamagna Angelo Center, 19N Main St., Enfield.

The town will receive $500,000 in federal stimulus money to fix blighted property in the Thompsonville section, Gov.

The Thompsonville Neighborhood Educational Initiative will kick off Aug. 26 at 6 p.m. with a dinner, at which attendees may begin gathering information on the problems and concerns of village residents related to education.

Voices for Thompsonville will hold its monthly meeting this Thursday night at 7 p.m. in the Polish Home at the corner of Alden Avenue and Church Street.

Five people have been released on bail after being arrested on drug-related charges in Thompsonville Friday.

Officials from the Thompsonville Fire Department said they have lowered the price of a proposed new fire station by more than $500,000 from the price that was overwhelmingly rejected by district voters last month.

Officials from the Thompsonville Fire Department said they have lowered the price of a proposed new fire station by more than $500,000 from the price that was overwhelmingly rejected by district voters last month.