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Dear Mother Nature: Thanks for Curbing Halloween This Year
Dear Mother Nature:Not cool. Not. Cool. At. All.Look, I defend you. Indeed, I’m against global warming and I’m for saving the whales. I like things that are green and I don’t like forest fires. I’m...
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State Tournament Dates Changed Due to Storm Damage
The Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference has made adjustments to its state tournament schedules and qualification dates in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. Due to many member schools still...
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Obituary: Carolyn Ann Dupuis and Judith Quinn
Middletown: Carolyn Ann (Stahl) Dupuis, 70, passed away on Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012. Middletown: Judith A. Quinn, 81, passed away on Saturday, Oct. 27, 2012.
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UPDATE: DEEP at Train Derailment That Spilled Gallons of Fuel
A 330,000-pound locomotive derailed Wednesday near the Remington Rand building in Middletown, spilling hundreds and possibly thousands of gallons of diesel fuel. Middletown police and firefighters...
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Malloy Says He Knows Power Outages are Taxing Residents' Patience
More utility resources are heading to the state to help ongoing clean up and power restoration efforts, crews that will be directed to areas still struggling to recover from Hurricane Sandy, Gov....
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CL&P Switching Into 'Full Restoration Mode'
CL&P says it has almost completed its damage assessments and has made substantial progress in clearing roads, which allows it to transition fully into "restoration mode" on Thursday. William...
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Aerial Tour Reveals Storm Damage Along Connecticut's Shoreline
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy today released a set of aerial photographs and video taken by the Connecticut National Guard on Tuesday during the Guard’s aerial assessment of Hurricane Sandy damage along the...
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Person of Interest, 46th Annual CMA Awards, Lake Placid
Person of Interest, 9 p.m., CBS “Reese must surreptitiously protect an investigative reporter without becoming a part of her story.” Um, Mr. Reese? I am a reporter. I feel that danger may be near....
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Author of Tarzan, A Century Old, Had Deep Connecticut Roots
The year 1912 saw many famous historical events unfold, such as the sinking of the Titanic, the unforgettable performance of Jim Thorpe at the Stockholm Olympics, the opening of Fenway Park, and the...
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Council Majority Leader: Mattabassett Referendum Crucial to Middletown
To the Editor: I would like to take this opportunity to make the citizens of Middletown aware of the crucially important Mattabassett referendum question on the Nov. 6 ballot. It is critically...
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Middletown Arrests: Oct. 24-26
Middletown Police report the following arrests: VIOLATION OF PROTECTIVE ORDER — On Oct. 26 at 12:53 p.m., Hassan Imad, 33, of Grand Street Rear called police, saying he was on the phone with his...
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Reader: Klekowski's Right That Issues are Community, Not Party, Based
To the Editor: I should point out that one of the reasons I am an Independent is that I agree with different points on both sides. As a member of Middletown’s Independent Party, I was in attendance...
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CL&P: 'Vast Majority' of Customers Will Be Restored by Monday or Tuesday
CL&P's projection for restoring the "vast majority" of its customers is "Monday or Tuesday," according to William Quinlan, a senior vice president for the utility. "This is an estimate, it is...
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Hurricane Prompts Extension of City's Voter Registration
Both Wednesday and Thursday were busier than usual in the basement of town hall, where the registrar of voters office saw more than its regular share of folks stopping by. "It was a lot more than...
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PD: City Man Caught Selling Stolen Wesleyan Laptop on Craigslist
A 23-year-old city man charged with stealing a laptop from Wesleyan University was advertising it and many others in a Craigslist ad, police say. Christopher Aresco, 23, of Aresco Drive, was...
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Obituary: Frank Allen Wilcox
Middletown: Frank Allen Wilcox, 57, passed away on Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012.
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Feds Vow Support in CT Following Sandy
U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano assured Connecticut residents Thursday that the federal government has their backs in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy. "We understand the...
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PD: Man Stiffed By 'Dealer' During Hurricane Charged With False Crime Reporting
A New York man, trying to buy marijuana from a stranger on the night Hurricane Sandy hit Middletown, was stiffed the $20, then reported the transaction as a robbery, according to Middletown Police....
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Malloy Questions Utilities' Hurricane Sandy Response
For the first time since Hurricane Sandy blew a swath of destruction through Connecticut, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy is questioning the response by the state's two main utility companies to widespread...
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CL&P: Polling Places Will Be Ready for Election Day
The 100 or so polling places in CL&P's territory still without power should be operational by Election Day, William Quinlan, a senior vice president, said Thursday evening. Restoring those...
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