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  • Malloy offers sermon on fairness; pushes agenda
    Wednesday - 02/07/2018 - 02:33 PM

    HARTFORD — Gov. Dannel P. Malloy on Wednesday offered a sermon on fairness, using his final State of the State address to push back at President Donald Trump’s policies and boost his own agenda and legacy.

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  • Ridgefield group hires marketing agency to help promote town
    Saturday - 02/03/2018 - 06:27 PM

    RIDGEFIELD — A group of residents and business owners, who teamed up last summer to promote the town, have decided to hire SandorMax marketing agency.

    Wayne Addessi, who started the group, said the Newtown-based company will help it develop a website.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

  • ‘Beetle Bailey’ cartoonist Mort Walker dies at 94
    Saturday - 01/27/2018 - 04:03 PM

    STAMFORD — “Beetle Bailey” creator Mort Walker, who chronicled the mishaps of the world’s laziest U.S. Army private since 1950 while maintaining an unrivaled run of work in the comics industry, died at his Stamford, Connecticut, home Saturday at 94.

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  • Route 7 reopens in Kent after flooding
    Friday - 01/26/2018 - 11:48 PM

    KENT - A nearly four-mile stretch of Route 7 has reopened after waters of the Housatonic River receded.

    “CT DOT has confirmed that Route 7 has now reopened,” State Rep. Brian Ohler tweeted Friday morning.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

  • Swastika found carved on tree in Redding
    Sunday - 01/21/2018 - 08:30 AM

    REDDING — Authorities are investigating after a swastika was carved onto a tree at a local popular trail.

    A community member found the swastika, photographed it and reported it to officials, First Selectman Julia Pemberton said in a post on the Redding Facebook page on Saturday.

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  • Judge sides with Bridgewater on Joshua Heights project
    Saturday - 01/20/2018 - 12:00 AM

    BRIDGEWATER — A plan to build affordable housing on Main Street North — in the works for the last 20 years —hit another roadblock this month when a state judge declined to enforce his own 2003 ruling.

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  • Police: Danbury man punched pregnant driver
    Saturday - 01/13/2018 - 09:56 PM

    BREWSTER — A Danbury man is in the custody of New York State Police after he struck a pregnant woman multiple times, police said. Police said that 35-year-old Allen Bredbenner, of Danbury, punched a pregnant woman with a closed fist in the face and in the stomach as she was driving Thursday.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

  • Metro-North collision shuts down Danbury Branch Line
    Saturday - 01/13/2018 - 08:03 AM

    REDDING — The Metro-North Danbury Branch was partially shut down after an unoccupied car was struck by a train late Friday night, Metro-North officials said.

    The accident occurred around 11:24 p.m.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

  • Danbury man arrested at Bethel motel
    Wednesday - 01/10/2018 - 09:39 AM

    BETHEL - A Danbury man was arrested at a motel after police responded to reports of a person in distress.

    Police said they received several reports early Sunday morning about an argument in one of the rooms at the Best Western on Stony Hill Roadand that a male voice was heard threatening that he was going to kill someone.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

  • Counterfeit money passed in Ridgefield
    Monday - 01/08/2018 - 11:45 AM

    RIGEFIELD - Police are looking for a man who authorities say passed several counterfeit $100 bills at retail establishments over the weekend.

    Police said there were five separate incidents recently of counterfeit bills being passed at businesses located on Main Street, Governor Street, Bailey Avenue and Catoonah Street.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share