The Day
Baby shower supports military families
Groton — As Nisha Martin sat with other expectant military spouses at a baby shower Tuesday at the Submarine Force Museum, she said having the support of her Navy family is life-changing. “I’ll probably remember this for the rest of my life," said...
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Protesters turn out in Norwich
Norwich — The City Council on Monday voted 5- 2 to remove a resolution from its agenda that would have had councilors hold a vote of “no confidence” regarding City Manager John Salomone. Republican Aldermen Bill Nash and Peter Nystrom, the two...
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Norwich skate park rehabbed after years of neglect
Norwich — After decades of neglect, the Donald Alfiero Skate Park across from Norwich Technical High School is almost fully renovated, thanks to a partnership between local skaters, a Bridgeport-based skate park builder and the city. Though cosmetic...
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Maternal care given to many
In the basement of Cailee Mathewson’s Pawcatuck home sits a 7-cubic-foot freezer tightly packed with neatly annotated zip-close bags that reach nearly to the rim of the chiller. Inside each of those larger bags, marked by weight and date, were several...
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QUAKE ROCKS PHILIPPINES
An offshore earthquake with a magnitude of 7.8 hit the southern Philippines on Monday, killing at least 35 people, injuring more than 200 others, mostly in ruined buildings, and sending a 3-foot tsunami into nearby coasts. Several mostly low-rise...
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Mystic Knotwork sails on down the road
With a growing need for space, Mystic Knotwork was not to be tied down. So the longtime Mystic nautical knot store has closed one of its two downtown locations in favor of moving to Olde Mistick Village. Matt Beaudoin, co-owner of the gift and home...
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There’s H.O.P.E. for a house
On Wednesday morning, 39year-old Giselle Santos walked up to a freshly painted two-family home at 20-22 Center St. in New London and audibly gasped. “Oh my God, it’s so beautiful,” said Santos, putting a hand over her chest and looking up at the...
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‘Utter joy’ as the coffee flows again at Carson’s
— Diane Hitchcock and Mac McMahon, longtime customers enjoying breakfast and coffee at Carson’s Store on Main Street in Noank last week, have been eating at Carson’s every day since hearing the establishment recently reopened. The Noank residents, who...
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Judge grants city access to Taftville station
Norwich — New London Superior Court Judge Scott Chadwick has approved the city’s request to gain immediate access to the Taftville volunteer firehouse and its trucks so that the city can implement “emergency staffing measures” by placing paid city...
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Williams School graduates 25 students
School name: The Williams School Number of graduates: 25 Ceremony location: Palmer Auditorium at Connecticut College Commencement speaker: Graduating senior Connor Gingras, of Old Lyme, who said he drew inspiration from “The Office” television show...
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Killingly residents protest Amazon project
Killingly — Opponents of Amazon’s plan to build a massive warehouse on Westcott Road turned out in full force on Monday for the Inland Wetlands and Watercourses Commission’s final public hearing on the proposal. Nearly three dozen residents rallied...
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Heading north on the southbound bridge
Groton resident George Abad, who works the night shift in the emergency room of Lawrence + Memorial Hospital in New London, drives over the Gold Star Memorial Bridge multiple times a day. He drove the new crossover lanes driving north on Sunday and...
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Fire ravages Groton apartments
Groton — An early morning Sunday fire destroyed several apartments at the Ledges Apartments on Ledgewood Road, displacing over 50 residents, according to fire officials. Poquonnock Bridge Fire Department responded to the scene after multiple calls for...
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New London and the first U.S. naval expedition
It made sense that the movement to create an American navy began in Rhode Island. Even before the Revolution, the colony felt the wrath of the British fleet, which had worked to suppress mercantile smuggling operations in Narragansett Bay. On Aug. 26,...
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Gold Star Bridge traffic to cross over tonight
New London — By 8 a.m. Sunday, drivers can expect to see a new traffic configuration on the Gold Star Memorial Bridge as two lanes of northbound traffic will “cross over” onto a dedicated section of the southbound bridge. Those two northbound lanes...
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Job hunt over for 309 students
— State Commissioner of Education Charlene Russell-Tucker noted the “excitement and a buzz in the air” Thursday evening in the Garde Arts Center as hundreds of high school students were recognized for accepting offers at Electric Boat. “It’s about our...
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Two chain selves to trucks at Taftville firehouse rally
Norwich — In a show of support for the Taftville volunteer fire company — which thought it might be suspended Wednesday by the city — two women chained themselves to firetrucks during a rally at the fire station Wednesday morning. The Taftville...
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320 graduate from Three Rivers college
Mohegan — Peggy Suchoski, of Jewett City, was close to tears as she reunited with her daughter in a sea of hundreds of chattering parents and graduates in blue caps and robes in the foyer of the Mohegan Sun Uncas Ballroom. Moments before, Emma...
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HONORING THE FALLEN
Norwich — The veterans who laid wreaths on the monuments at Monday’s memorial parade ceremony noted the importance of the event — as they reminisced about their fallen brothers. Shortly after 1 p.m., during the ceremony on the Chelsea Parade Green,...
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State recognizes Putnam’s Medal of Honor winner
Putnam — For decades, Henry Breault’s story was obscured by history, his local significance as a Medal of Honor recipient marked only by the epitaph inscribed on a grass marker on the Breault family plot. Born in Putnam in 1900 and buried in St. Mary...
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Putting Eagle’s eagle back together
As it sailed from New London on May 1, the Coast Guard barque Eagle set out on its annual cadet training deployment, plus a tour of eastern ports for Sail250, an OpSail-like celebration of the nation’s 250th birthday. On the bow was a figurehead that...
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Honoring ‘heroes that are too often forgotten’
New London — Mariners, veterans, community members and officials gathered Friday at the World War II Merchant Marine Memorial on the Fort Trumbull peninsula to honor merchant mariners and the community’s maritime ties. The National Maritime Day...
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‘Palace’ no more, Bobby’s Burgers reopens
Mohegan — With his parents’ permission, Wallingford 3-year-old Gavin Dowdy got to skip school Thursday. Instead, Gavin and his family took the hour-and-a-half trip from their home to Mohegan Sun so that the boy could meet his idol, celebrity chef and...
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Trump praises graduates’ ‘noble service’
New London — President Donald J. Trump on Wednesday praised the perseverance of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy’s graduating Class of 2026 during a keynote address that also touched on volatile global affairs in places where some of the new junior...
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WILDFIRE RAGES IN CALIFORNIA
More than 17,000 people were under evacuation orders in Southern California on Tuesday as a wildfire threatened suburban homes. The wind-driven Sandy Fire was reported Monday in the hills above Simi Valley, about 30 miles northwest of Los Angeles. By...
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Grasso Tech senior flourishes in culinary arts
Groton — Ekana Brown, a senior at Ella T. Grasso Technical School, has grown in confidence over his four years at the school as he’s flourished in the culinary arts. For a recent project, he created an Italian-themed menu and made a Caesar salad,...
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512 GRADUATE FROM CONN COLLEGE
New London — Connecticut College held its 108th Commencement ceremony on Sunday, graduating 512 undergraduate students. The graduation took place on campus on the Tempel Green at 11 a.m. Graduates started walking to the stage at around 10:30 as...
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It’s one Fin solution
At a small hydroelectric plant on the Quinebaug River in Preston, the United States’ first ever movable hydraulic fishway has already helped hundreds of fish pass over the dam. The new fishway is the proprietary invention of FishHeart, a Finnish...
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A vet for vets’ pets
Norwich — Shortly after noon Friday, Ken Izbicki, an Air Force veteran from Lisbon, arrived in the parking lot of Easterseals Veterans Rally Point on Stott Avenue with his dog Gus. They were there to take advantage of a mobile veterinary clinic that...
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Lazzaro named Norwich deputy police chief
Norwich — Police Chief Patrick Daley announced Wednesday night that the city has chosen Capt. Thomas Lazzaro, an 18- year veteran of the police department, as the department’s new deputy chief. Lazzaro, 52, will be second in command to Daley. He was...
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Conn gives back with Give ’N Go program
New London — For the past 20 years, as students move out of the dormitories at Connecticut College each spring, they have found a way to give back to the community. Volunteers and student coordinators with the school’s Office of Sustainability were...
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Tribe’s Two Trees Inn is back in business
Mashantucket — The 280-room Two Trees Inn, one of the original lodging areas at Foxwoods Resort Casino that closed in 2020 during the COVID slowdown, had its grand reopening Tuesday. About 100 officials and invited guests attended a ribbon-cutting for...
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A BRICK-AND-MORTAR OPERATION
Blake Chapman lays new concrete grout as a team repairs some of the bricks at 24 Eugene O’Neill Drive in New London on Monday. In 2012, artist Carolyn McNeil painted the mural “Racing Seahorse” when the building housed the Copperwood Grill.
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Sunrise, Sunset Final home opener is bittersweet for longtime Connecticut Sun fans
Mohegan — A group of 30 or so fans stood on center court at Mohegan Sun Arena on Sunday, just minutes before tip-off of the Connecticut Sun’s home opener against the Seattle Storm. They call themselves the “Original Fans," season ticket holders since...
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It’s not yet see worthy
The Mystic Seaport’s latest exhibition space at the Wells Boat Hall, at the historic Rossie Mill across from the main campus in Mystic, is still at least $2 million away from being completed, and $5 million in fundraising would be required to make it a...
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Community garden ready to bloom, down the road
New London — A recently transplanted community garden that was at the center of a controversy last year is nearly ready for the spring growing season just as several new affordable homes are set to be built on its former planting grounds. During the...
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IT’S ALL FOR THE BIRDS
Dan Rosen, left, and Kerryn Nichols, with Designs by Ilde LLC, set up goose exclusion fencing around young 2-inch Spartina grass seedlings recently planted in the Bride Book salt marsh at Rocky Neck State Park in East Lyme on Thursday. The work is part...
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RAINY DAY IN MYSTIC
A visitor uses an umbrella to cross West Main Street at it rains in downtown Mystic on Wednesday.
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Next phase of Gold Star work begins
New London — In 1950, the Gold Star Memorial Bridge carried about 16,000 vehicles a day. Today, the now two-span bridge carries 60,000 vehicles in each direction, a traffic volume that exceeds what it was built to handle, state Department of...
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Groton Town officers rescue man scaling Gold Star fence
Two Groton Town police officers rescued a distraught man who had one leg over the top of the Gold Star Bridge security barrier Sunday afternoon. Police said that at 4:48 p.m., Groton Ambulance personnel who were crossing the bridge in Groton reported...
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Celebrating the springtime magic of TULIPS
Tehillah Liaw is only 2 years old, but she has been to the Wicked Tulips Flower Farm’s Preston location three times. “I think she was a few months at most the first time we visited," her mother, Amy Luo, said Sunday, dressed in a matching outfit. She...
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Solutions eyed for climate change issues
Anew report looks at risks and vulnerabilities to the Mystic River Watershed from flooding, extreme heat and drought, and it offers some potential solutions to address these climate-driven liabilities. Project officials recently presented key...
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‘A shared responsibility’
Hartford — Red sand settled in the sidewalk cracks outside the Connecticut State Capitol on Friday. Dressed in red, women from the Eastern Pequot, Golden Hill Paugussett, Mashantucket Pequot, Mohegan and Schaghticoke tribal nations solemnly scattered...
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Inspectors cry danger; local officials cry foul
New London — Back in June of 2024, Vessel Technology founder Neil Rubler hosted a tour of his company’s newest “prototype” apartment complex at 174 Bank St. Ahead of a walk-through of the fivestory, 30-unit building with city officials and building...
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Visiting where the ‘little pink house’ stood
New London — Professor David Iscoe stood in the spot where Susette Kelo’s little pink house once stood in the Fort Trumbull neighborhood and asked a group of Mitchell College students Monday what they saw. “Nothing” and “parking lots” they answered as...
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Lamont moves quickly to tout new Connecticut budget deal
After a few days of tense negotiations ultimately led Monday to a tentative state budget deal, Gov. Ned Lamont pivoted quickly Tuesday to promote highlights of the plan. Touting $ 270 million in new municipal aid included in the compromise deal,...
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Norwich and a Togo commune become sister cities
— Towoudjeba Dolou, of Tolland, kept his eyes up as he raised the Togolese flag outside Norwich City Hall on Monday afternoon. The city was celebrating the signing of its sister city partnership with Bassar 4, a rural commune in the small West African...
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WALKING TO END HOMELESSNESS
New London — When he woke up on Sunday, John Williams of Norwich wasn’t sure if he was going to join Southeastern Connecticut’s Annual Walk to End Homelessness. Originally from New York, Williams experienced a period of homelessness from 2015 to 2017...
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‘I’m going to be OK’
It started with an itch. That irritation, not soothed by topical creams, erupted from Jason Barnwell’s skin about eight years ago at his job as an advanced planner at Electric Boat. “It was intense, so much that I knew something wasn’t right,” said...
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Multimillion-dollar makeover
Sprague — The Mohegan Sun Golf Club has opened this season with a redesigned course meant to be more accessible for players of all levels, and opens the 18-hole course up to host some big-name events. Club General Manager Philip Krick Jr. on Friday...
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Conn College offers a course for the ages
— It was all giggles New London and hugs Thursday inside the Connecticut College Child Development Lab School’s library, where three distinct age groups gathered to make connections — and frost cookies. About a dozen preschoolers at the Nameaug...
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SPRING IN THEIR STEP
Connecticut College students walk underneath blooming trees along Cro Boulevard at the New London campus on Wednesday.
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High school students learn about life-or-death scenarios
East Lyme — Students from four area high schools on Tuesday were reminded of the thin line between life and death, and that quick thinking and clear communication can determine whether that line gets crossed. Emergency medical technician course...
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Hot, HOT, HOT!
Waterford — Tears fell from Denniz Stern’s red cheeks as he savored the last bite of his chicken slider. It’s not every day a chicken sandwich makes a grown man cry. But this was no ordinary chicken sandwich. This was the “Reaper” from Dave’s Hot...
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Conn College radio not always coming through loud and clear
New London — On Tuesday morning, DJ Alison Kaufman, as she has for the last 17 years, stood next to a bank of CD players and two turntables while transmitting a steady stream of music and conversations from inside the WCNI radio studio. In the rear of...
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HITTING THE ROAD
New London — It may have been the Sunday before spring break, but just before 8 a.m., a crowd of students and parents started to gather outside New London High School. While their classmates will be enjoying a week off, the group of 42 students along...
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IT’S A GROWING BUSINESS
Crisp Cannabis has been growing marijuana for less than a year in Norwich, but it seems like half a lifetime to President Andrew Simonow, a former builder who went from constructing horticultural environments to running medicalmarijuana outlets to...
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Murphy: Museum needs bridge funds
New London — U. S. Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., on Wednesday said that without a new funding commitment by the state for a promised — but seemingly stalled — pedestrian bridge project in downtown New London, the success of the incoming National Coast...
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Yantic fire still funded under Norwich city manager’s budget proposal
Norwich — City Manager John Salomone’s proposed 2026-27 budget of $152.6 million continues to fund the inactive Yantic volunteer fire department, which has been shut for nearly two months, along with the three other volunteer departments who are also...
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Officials: Get ready to slow down
Beginning Wednesday morning, the southbound Gold Star Memorial Bridge will be reduced to three lanes, with crews restriping lanes starting Tuesday evening. Due to weather, the new traffic configuration was delayed from the original start date of...
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A SUNRISE EASTER TRADITION IN STONINGTON
Stonington — There wasn’t much to see to the east at Stonington Point as the sun rose through a windy, foggy morning on Sunday. But still, more than 50 parishioners gathered at Stonington Point for the annual Ecumenical Easter Sunrise Service. For the...
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THE BIRTH of CRYSTAL MALL
Fifteen hundred people shouted in unison: “One, two, three!” Then a red and blue ribbon was cut as the crowd cheered. It was a long-awaited moment on Sept. 25, 1984. When it was over, people scattered, serenaded by the Waterford High School band. They...
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New Waterford police chief aims to expand wellness program
Waterford — Until he went to college, new Police Chief David Ferland, who started the job this week, thought he would be a high school math teacher. “A lot of my family worked in education, and I thought I was going to, too," Ferland said Thursday,...
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Woman pleads guilty in teenager’s death
A 43-year-old New London woman pleaded guilty Thursday to charges related to the death of a 17-year-old girl, which occurred during an earlymorning struggle nearly three years ago. Erica Cherry — who along with her son N’Shon Cherry was charged in...
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OFF TO THE MOON
Cape Canaveral, Fla. — Four astronauts embarked on a high-stakes flight around the moon Wednesday, humanity’s first lunar voyage in more than half a century and the thrilling leadoff in NASA’s push toward a landing in two years. Carrying three...
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It’s not about vanity, but survival
New London — From ancient times to modern day, from the Americas to the Asian islands, from St. Joan of Arc to Stonewall Riot leader Marsha P. Johnson, transgender, non-binary and gender-nonconforming figures have left their mark on not just LGBTQ+...
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Ledyard man to be committed for violent attack of Old Lyme employer
A 54-year-old Ledyard man who committed a violent home invasion at the Old Lyme home of his employer in 2024 and later bragged to state police about it being a “good cardio workout” will be sentenced to a term at the state-run psychiatric facility for...
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