Windsor Locks News

Dec. 9 through Dec. 23, Johnson Memorial Medical Center will be hosting a food drive to benefit Safe Net Ministries Food Cupboard.

Connecticut state police are reporting dozens of motor vehicle accidents and schools across the state are closing early as snow continues to blanket the region.

In recent years, vacant mill or factory buildings in Norwich , Windsor Locks , Somers and Waterbury were destroyed by fires, sad losses not unknown to many other communities.

Susan Silver O'Connor, the Assistant General Counsel and Director of Legal Services for Health New England will be speaking at Asnuntuck Community College on Thursday, Dec. 5th, at 6:30 p.m. Susan Silver O'Connor is the Assistant General Counsel and Director of Legal Services for Health New England.

The choir of the East Longmeadow United Methodist church will present an original contemporary cantata for Christmas, Hope for the Lowly, written by the Church's music director and accompanist John Cavicchia, on Sunday, Dec. 15 in worship at 10 a.m. All are welcomed.

Astronaut Randolph Bresnik said he hopes some of the students at Farmington High School will someday be among those who step foot on another planet.

Support local commerce and the JMH Auxiliary by shopping at the Johnson Memorial Hospital Auxiliary Holiday Boutique Thursday, Dec. 5 and Friday, Dec. 6 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Hospital's Main Lobby.

On Oct. 25, a man tried to burglarize a hotel room at the Quality Inn on Elia Grasso Turnpike in Windsor Locks, only to be interrupted by the two occupants of the room, according to police.

With the busiest travel season of the year upon us there's something new at Bradley International Airport.

Left to right, seated: Pete Scougall, Pierre Roy, Frank D'Amato. Left tor right, standing: Albert Desrosiers, Rich Blanchard, Alex Dzieik, John Anderson Julien Brunelle, Jack Scougall, Pat Mortan, Tom Wlazlo, Mary Longo and Betsy Cannon.

Parkway Pavilion Healthcare of Enfield's Team Parkway raised $3,671 for the Alzheimer's Walk held in October.

The Farmington Valley Superintendents' Association formally recognized student leaders during a ceremony at the Farmington Country Club Friday, Nov. 22, 2013.

In October, Avon Volunteer Fire Department explorers participated in a Junior Firefighter Muster at the Connecticut Fire Academy in Windsor Locks .

The $34.3 million center is a 120,000-square-foot facility with classrooms, offices, storage space, mechanical, electrical space and computer training simulators for the soldiers, pilots and airframes that make up the Guard's aviation community.

The following information, as provided by the Enfield Police Department, is accurate as of Thurs., Nov. 21, 2013.

State police emergency dispatchers now monitor a 50-town area of eastern Connecticut, including two tribal nations, from one room.

Diane Kuzmickas of Windsor Locks, owner of Diane's Canning, Extracts & Specialty Trade, speaks on the phone during Sunday's annual Toy Drive and Open House at the Chesterfield Fire Company in Montville.

A Connecticut Police Department, K9 gets a generous gift from a young artist. Ashley Caswell, 25, of Somers, gifted an oil painting to Officer Matthew Worden, of Enfield CT, of K9 Falco, on Sunday, Sept.

The New England Air Museum in Windsor Locks, Conn. will hold its annual Santa Visit & Behind the Scenes Tour on Friday, November 29, the day after Thanksgiving.

Arrest information is furnished by the state police Troop C barracks in Tolland and does not indicate a conviction.