Harbor Freight Tools opens 7th store in Conn. in Waterbury
WATERBURY -- If there is one key to being successful in business, it's going where your customers are. That's what brought Harbor Freight Tools, the nation's largest discount tool retailer, to the...
View ArticleWaterburians need to take more pride in city's aesthetics
This is in response to the Aug. 3 story "Youth corps clean up Town Plot Park." Are we so lazy that we cannot pick up a can or wrapper when we are done with it? We have to have young people from the...
View ArticleLate payments on mortgages hit 3-year low in 2Q
U.S. homeowners are getting better about keeping up with their mortgage payments, driving the percentage of borrowers who have fallen behind to a three-year low, according to a new report. Still, the...
View ArticleImaginative fare at Main Street Grill
John Bourdeau says he's always had it in the back of his head to open a restaurant in the circa 1936 building on Watertown's Main Street. The onetime Wolk's department store has in recent years served...
View ArticleSingle-stream recycling comes to Morris
MORRIS -- Single-stream recycling is in at the town's recycling and trash transfer station. With a flip of a switch Wednesday, the facility's foreman, Sam Luchene, activated a compactor that crushes...
View ArticleA Golden State train wreck
PALO ALTO, Calif. — State Sen. Joe Simitian's district office near Stanford's campus is nestled among shops sporting excruciatingly cute names ("A Street Bike Named Desire," "Mom's the Word" maternity...
View ArticleQuiet 'Hope Springs' has real punch|Watch a video on the movie
Here's how surprisingly effective "Hope Springs" is: It will make you want to go home and have sex with your spouse afterward. Or at least share a longer hug or a more passionate kiss. You don't have...
View ArticleNew Milford Hospital plans $11M addition to its emergency department
New Milford Hospital has announced plans to build a two-story, 11,000-square-foot addition that will house its new emergency department. The new and expanded ED is not being built because the hospital...
View ArticleLegendary Lyle|Bluegrass, folk, jazz, gospel - audiences Lovett all
Bluegrass, country, folk, swing, rock, jazz, gospel — Lyle Lovett cannot be defined by one genre. When the four-time Grammy winner visits Torrington's Warner Theatre Sunday, chances are he and his...
View ArticleSummer theaters wrap up
Once the crickets start chirping and the jewel weed starts popping up, you know summer theater is starting to scale down its productions, but that doesn't mean scaling down on entertainment....
View ArticleThursday, Aug. 9, 2012
HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Thursday, Aug. 9, 2012: This year you often say one thing yet do another. Your mixed messages could cause confusion and a sense of unfulfillment. You might feel like you never get...
View ArticleNaugatuck man wins lottery prize
NAUGATUCK -- A borough man won a $20,000 lottery prize Monday on his 31st birthday, according to a release from the CT Lottery. Daniel Fontes, an electrician, bought a “20X the Cash” scratch-off ticket...
View ArticleWatertown wants to fix dangerous curve on road
WATERTOWN -- The town has applied for a state grant to improve the safety of Middlebury Road between Sand Bank Road and the town line. “It's got a really sharp nasty curve,” Public Works Director Roy...
View ArticleWaterbury to pick arts magnet school principal tonight
WATERBURY -- The Board of Education has called a special meeting tonight for the appointment of a new Waterbury Arts Magnet School principal and an interim principal for Sprague Elementary School....
View ArticleWinsted employee unions reject concessions
WINSTED -- The unions representing town employees have rejected an offer to give up a day's pay per week and a reduction in medical benefits to help the town resolve its latest budget crisis. Town...
View ArticleNew slate roof considered for old Town Hall in Watertown
WATERTOWN -- The town has put out a request for proposals to repair the slate roof on Town Hall. The old Town Hall at 37 DeForest Street has had scaffolding over its front entrance for years to protect...
View ArticleNew Hartford schools hire new administrator
NEW HARTFORD -- The Board of Education for the pre-kindergarten-through-grade six system announced Wednesday that it has hired a new director of student services. Angela Ehrenwerth will fill the void...
View ArticlePolice seek information in Sharon homicide
SHARON -- State police late Tuesday began handing out fliers to motorists along Route 4 hopeing that someone saw something that will prove useful in an investigation of the shooting death of...
View ArticleUPDATED: Fifteen suspects nabbed in sweep|Police, probation officers scour...
TORRINGTON — Law enforcement put 15 suspects wanted for a variety of crimes behind bars overnight Wednesday. All 15 were swept up by local police, and officers from the state's Department of Parole and...
View ArticleAccident closes Route 44 in Salisbury
SALISBURY -- Police are on the scene of motor vehicle accident where a utility pole was taken down shortly before 7 a.m. on Route 44. A section of that road between Route 112 and Belgo Road has been...
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