Wethersfield News

Seventy years later, Harry L. Lichtenbaum can still see the flames licking up the canvas wall of the circus tent.

The diminishing number of volunteers in the fire service over the past few decades has local departments continually looking for creative ways not only to attract, but to retain their members.

Through three innings of play, Ryan Berasi pitched to near perfection. He had four strikeouts, only gave up one run, and pitched the Wethersfield 11-12 Majors Green Eagles out of a bases loaded jam in the third inning.

A data software provider switch will result in more than $20,000 in equipment maintenance fee savings for the Wethersfield Police Department.

During the final moments that Kathleen Miskell lived, she and her husband were excited - riding together hip-to-hip, soaking in the sights while parasailing off the coast of Pompano Beach .

Officials with Wethersfield-based Hartford HealthCare Medical Group said they recently discovered the vaccine doses may have been stored at the wrong temperatures long enough to render them potentially ineffective, due to mechanical problems with refrigerators in some cases and human error in others.

A newly-formed ad hoc committee focused on reviewing the Town of Wethersfield's 50-year lease with the local Historical Society for the Deming-Standish House, the home of Lucky Lou's Bar and Grille, has decided to seek Town Council support.

About a year and a half ago, Rocky Hill resident Jessica Pelletier was in the hospital having six tumors--four in her breasts and two in her stomach--removed.

Governor Dannel P. Malloy visited Silas Deane Middle School in Wethersfield on Thursday to announce that the application process will begin next week for the next round of the School Security Grant Program.

Qualidigm , the mission-driven national health care consulting company in Wethersfield, Conn, plans to launch patient and healthcare provider educational materials on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in August.

Jaimin Malaviya, 29, and Nathaniel Reeves, 44, current and former managers at the Comfort Inn in Wethersfield, have been arrested and charged with promoting prostitution at the hotel.

At left, Leha Guilmette, Mrs. Rhode Island America 2013, is one of the stars of Bravo's 'Game of Crowns', a series about the 'Mrs.' pageant circuit for married women.

This composite of Wethersfield police mug shots shows ex-hotel manager Jaimin "Jay" Malaviya, 29, of Greenfield, Ma.

Prostitutes operated openly on the fourth floor of the Comfort Inn on Silas Deane Highway, according to a yearlong police investigation, at times shocking other guests by appearing in scanty clothes at breakfast or in hallways.

Jolie Rocke Brown, a gifted, versatile vocalist from Wethersfield who's as much at home soaring on opera arias and celestial hymns as she is getting down with funky blues and earthy jazz, just might, at long last, have the whole world in her hands thanks to her new soulful album, " Rock of Ages : Hymns for the Soul."

Police are looking for the owner of a small white dog found on the side of the Berlin Turnpike near Cedar Hill Cemetery Monday morning.

Bliss Market, a grocery and fine food store in business since the 1930s, has closed and is unlikely to reopen, Planning and Economic Development Director Peter Gillespie said Wednesday.

When Wethersfield Mayor Paul Montinieri took the podium in Central Connecticut State University's Welte Auditorium in New Britain last Tuesday to deliver his address to the graduating Wethersfield High School Class of 2014, he had some tough acts to follow.

Though environmentalists feel it didn't go far enough, the state's recent ruling on tree trimming by utility companies injects balance and common sense into the process.

The Hartford Courant busemeyer@courant.com The two spans being replaced this weekend on Interstate 84 in Southington are not the only bridges in the state that need attention.