The Day
Renderings are unveiled for Stonington technology park plan
Stonington — READCO has unveiled preliminary renderings for a proposed technology park on Route 2 just off Exit 92 of Interstate 95. The first phase of the Stonington Technology Park calls for an 80,000square-foot office building and 125,000square-...
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EN ROUTE
Gavarnie-Gèdre, France — Tadej Pogacar produced a tremendous solo ride on the iconic Col du Tourmalet on Thursday to earn a 23rd Tour de France stage victory, reclaim control of the race and sap his rivals’ morale after just six days of...
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FUNERAL CONTINUES FOR IRANIAN LEADER IN IRAQ
Shiite clerics join other mourners during the funeral procession for the late Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei inside the Imam Ali Shrine in Najaf, Iraq, on Wednesday. See related story on
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Out of disaster comes growth
New London — On Tuesday morning, a crowd of nearly 100 people stood along the edge of a former Union Street church property, the densest gathering of individuals at the site since a steeple collapse brought horrified on-lookers and emergency personnel...
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Montville may seek grant to replace failing septic systems
Montville — There are 36 separate septic systems at the Meadows Apartments on Leffingwell Road in Uncasville, split between 114 apartments in 18 buildings. Property owner and manager Stephen St. Germain has said the tanks are “old and tired” and has...
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BOARDWALK ILLUSIONS
A perfect beach day at Ocean Beach Park on June 24 was easing into the golden-hour light of evening. Folks were drifting onto the bleachers set up around a stage where the iconic boardwalk clock tower used to be. A little after 7 p.m., the show began,...
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REGION CELEBRATES HISTORIC DAY
Lyme — It was small-town fun on Saturday as local residents gathered for annual Fourth of July festivities that included a parade, an art exhibit, a barbecue and an old-fashioned sing-along. LymeLyte, a local band that took the stage at the barbecue...
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Longtime Stonington Borough Fire Chief to retire
Stonington — Longtime Stonington Borough Fire Chief Jeff Hoadley remembers growing up and seeing fire trucks racing to fire calls and wanting to help. As soon as he could, at age 18, he joined the Pioneer Hook and Ladder Company and has been in the...
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Coast Guard helicopter pilot recalls flying museum exhibit
New London — U.S. Coast Guard Cmdr. Chelsea Kalil, a veteran helicopter pilot on the eve of her retirement, recently spotted a social media post showing an MH- 60T Jayhawk helicopter being hoisted into the steel skeleton of the National Coast Guard...
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Plan for warming shelter faces opposition
Norwich — Residents of the city’s “Millionaires’ Triangle” are opposing a nonprofit’s plan to open a 58-bed overnight warming shelter at a church in the midst of Gilded Age mansions. Millionaires’ Triangle, formed by a triangle of Broadway and Broad...
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Greater landlord oversight sought in New London
New London — Several local lawmakers, flanked by city renters and tenant union members, made a public push on Tuesday for stronger landlord accountability and municipal oversight of apartment code enforcement. Members of the New London-based chapters...
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STAYING COOL IN THE HEAT
The entire state will be under an extreme heat watch for several days this week as dangerously hot temperatures are expected. The watch will go into effect on Wednesday morning and remain in place until Saturday evening, according to the National...
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They’re united by passion
Mystic — Bruce Kennedy says he has wooden boat disease. Having spent decades restoring wooden boats as a hobby, he knows the effects it can have, but loves it anyway. “It’s a passion I love or a disease, depending on how you look at it. It has some...
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Protecting a ‘diamond in the rough’
Agrassroots organization is hoping to use a new forest management plan, prospective state grants and their enthusiasm to restore and manage New London’s largest — but still often overlooked — public park. The Bates Friends Forever (BFF) group, a...
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Vessel is hailed as a boon for the Sound
Old Lyme — A new $2.2 million research vessel will expand the state’s ability to monitor water quality in Long Island Sound and its bays and to respond to water quality problems in the face of climate change, state officials said Friday. State...
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DEVASTATION IN VENEZUELA
La Guaira, Venezuela — Venezuelans searched for survivors beneath collapsed buildings Thursday and rescue teams raced to northern areas rocked by a pair of powerful earthquakes that officials say killed at least 188 people and left more than 200...
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Norwich, England, soccer fans visit the Rose City
Norwich — Shortly after noon Wednesday, a group of five men, carrying a red flag and a few wearing similar red and blue colors, stood next to a city welcome sign on Route 165, directly across from Hamilton Wine & Spirits. As a few cars streamed by,...
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The last of its kind
Mystic — The 1866 sailing smack Emma C. Berry, originally out of Noank and considered the oldest commercial fishing boat still in existence, was relaunched at Mystic Seaport Museum on Tuesday after a two-year restoration process. The National Historic...
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Celebrating freedom for all
Norwich — More than 100 people gathered Friday afternoon at David Ruggles Freedom Courtyard, in front of City Hall, to celebrate Juneteenth. It was the 37th Juneteenth Commemoration Ceremony for the city, which is recorded as being the first in the...
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New London High School graduates 187
School name: New London High School Multi-Magnet Campus Number of graduates: 187 Ceremony location: High school football field Class president and valedictorian: Kalyani Patel said there wasn’t any one accomplishment or group of students that made...
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Montville High School graduates 131
School Name: Montville High School. Number of Graduates: 131 Ceremony Location: Montville High School football field. Class President Ashlynn Audoin : “No matter where the members of the Class of 2026 go next, whether it’s college, the military, the...
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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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