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2025 movies: Picking 25 films that intrigue for one reason or another
It’s a challenge to keep a list of noteworthy movies still to come in 2025 to a lean 25. To make it easier, we’ve stuck to theatrical releases, so apologies to fast-approaching streaming flicks such as...
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Tracing roots of Black America’s middle class
Sometimes, dignity can come with something as simple as a name tag. In 1925, dignity came for the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters when the organization got a charter from the American Federation of...
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New Britain Museum of American Art gives Impressionism its due
Can we stand another exhibit on Impressionism? Of course we can. Americans are mad for Impressionism, that dazzling crowd-pleasing ice cream parlor of confectionary colors, sparkling seashores,...
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Watertown Police Blotter
WATERTOWN Watertown police recently filed the following charges: MICHAEL THOMAS SHEA, 52, of 20 Happy Ave., Oakville, illegal operation of motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol/drugs,...
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State may be hurt by Trump’s tariffs
HARTFORD – Trade wars between the U.S. and Canada and Mexico could prove costly for Connecticut because the two countries are the state’s two largest import partners. The $9.4 billion in products...
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Fay Vincent never forgot his roots in Naugatuck Valley
Fay Vincent Jr. was a big-shot executive in Hollywood and the corporate world who owned homes in Florida, Cape Cod and the Gold Coast of Connecticut. He was most famous for being the eighth...
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Potential witnesses eyed for March attorney manslughter trial
TORRINGTON – The State’s Attorney’s Office in Torrington served 19 subpoenas to potential witnesses who could be called to testify in the upcoming Robert Fisher manslaughter trial in Superior Court....
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Waterbury, state leaders decrie funding halt
WATERBURY – Mayor Paul K. Pernerewski Jr. Jr. stood Monday on the grounds of the demolished former Waterbury Button Co. factory to protest the sudden suspension of federal funding supporting the former...
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Waterbury man’s shooting by cops probed
WATERBURY – The state inspector general is investigating an officer-involved shooting in New Haven last week that killed a 35-year-old Waterbury man. The incident occurred during the execution of a...
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Morning 5: Hearst kidnapping
On this date in 1974, Patty Hearst, 19, was kidnapped from her apartment in Berkeley, Calif., by members of the Symbionese Liberation Army. 5 more abductions: 1) Charles Lindbergh Jr., Mar. 1, 1932....
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Waterbury Police Blotter
WATERBURY Waterbury police recently filed the following charges: DEVONTE WILLIAMS, 32, of 16 Webb St., second-degree failure to appear. MARQUESIA LOWERY, 24, of 34 Elizabeth St., third-degree criminal...
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Naugatuck family displaced after Sunday evening fire
NAUGATUCK – A family of four was displaced after a fire broke out in a walk-in closet at their home early Sunday evening. The Naugatuck Fire Department responded to a fire at a single-family home on...
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Falls Village students share with community
FALLS VILLAGE – Students in the FFA chapter at Housatonic Valley Regional High School are learning the importance of community. For the past several years, they have shared some of their earnings from...
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Project offers little return
With every known form of electrical generation comes a single word: “But.” Nuclear reactors are reliable and versatile, but they produce highly toxic radioactive waste. Fossil-fuel generators are...
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Joanne Zemaitis
OAKVILLE – With heavy hearts, the family of Joanne Zemaitis, a beloved wife, mother, grandmother, and cherished member of the community, shares the news of her peaceful passing on Jan. 30, 2025, after...
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Luz M. Vicente
WATERBURY – Ms. Luz Maria Vicente, 66, died Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025. She was born Sept. 22, 1958, to the late Roberto Vicente and Luz Marina Rodriguez. Visitation 11 a.m., funeral noon Wednesday, Feb....
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Debra Vendetti
WATERBURY – Debra (Dubauskas) Vendetti, 70, of Waterbury, passed away peacefully on Monday, Feb. 3, 2025, at Ingraham Manor, in Bristol, surrounded by her loving family. She was the beloved widow of...
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Richard Spierto
MIDDLEBURY – Richard Spierto, a longtime resident of Middlebury, passed away Friday, Jan. 31, 2025, surrounded by his wife and family. He was the devoted husband of Ann (Vaccarelli) Spierto. Born in...
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Giovanna Polletta
WATERTOWN – Giovanna (Guerrera) Polletta, 95, of Watertown, entered into the gates of Heaven on Saturday, Feb. 1, 2025, at Waterbury Hospital surrounded by her loving family. She was the beloved widow...
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William H. Nelson
BURLINGTON – William H. Nelson, 79, of Burlington, passed away Friday, Jan. 31, 2025, after a brief illness. He was born May 20, 1945, in Hamden, son of the late John and Irene (Grabham) Nelson. Bill...
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Regina E. Marshall
WATERBURY – Regina Elaine Marshall passed away on Jan. 24, 2025. She was born on Jan. 28, 1958 in Waterbury, to Clarence Marshall and Louise Morgan. A celebration of Regina’s life will be on Thursday,...
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Violet L. Kentana
LITCHFIELD – Violet L. Kentana, 97, entered into the presence of the Lord on Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025. She is survived by her loving daughters, Patricia Sanford and her husband Richard, Sandra Kentana,...
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Patrick F. Boland
BEACON FALLS – Patrick F. Boland, age 87, passed away peacefully on Jan. 29. 2025, at Lord Chamberlain Rehabilitation Center in Stratford. Born in Bridgeport on July 26 1937, he was the son of the late...
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Jean-Marc Boivin
WATERBURY – Jean-Marc Boivin, 82, passed away peacefully on Feb. 2, 2025 at the VITAS Inpatient Hospice Care Unit in Saint Mary’s Hospital. He was husband of Lise (Gelinas) Boivin for 58 years....
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Next 4 years of Trump will bring a great deal of angst
It’s official; the people have spoken and Donald Trump is now the duly elected president. At his inauguration he was surrounded by the clapping and cheering of some of the richest men in the world and...
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Stewart goes for governor with giddy superficiality
Outlining last week her potential candidacy for the Republican nomination for governor, New Britain’s Republican mayor, Erin Stewart, said that while her likely Democratic opponent, Gov. Ned Lamont, is...
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Today in History, February 4
By The Associated Press Today is Tuesday, Feb. 4, the 35th day of 2025. There are 330 days left in the year. Today in history: On Feb. 4, 1997, a civil jury in Santa Monica, California, found O.J....
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Impressive win at Marquette keeps Huskies on track
The UConn men’s basketball team went into Saturday’s game at Marquette in a precarious position. A loss would have dropped the Huskies three games behind St. John’s in the Big East standings while...
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Waterbury’s Begnal enjoys taste of big-time football at Michigan St.
WATERBURY – It might have ended with a losing record, but Joe Begnal Jr.’s first season with the Michigan State football program was triumphant in every other way for the Waterbury native. Begnal, who...
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Wisconsin man extradited for alleged theft of his former roommate’s gun
NAUGATUCK – A Wisconsin man was extradited back to Connecticut after he stole a firearm from his former borough roommate and sold it. Naugatuck police received a complaint back in September of 2021...
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