Voluntown

The first Walktober event I did was a trip to Creamery Brook Bison farm in Brooklyn. Watching bison thundering across the farm fields of Connecticut and kicking up a dust cloud that dimmed the bright autumn sun is something that will stay with me forever....

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Assume for the moment that through some miracle of nature, Hartford really does become a convention-mad colossus; and the Front Street project is loud and boisterous and full of cool shops and classy hookers and fancy gin joints; and expensive condos full...

Houghton: Services for Gregory Freeland, 60, of Houghton will be 10:30 a.m., Wednesday, July 11, 2012, at the United Methodist Church, Claremont. Pastor Nancy Manning will officiate. Burial will follow in Houghton Cemetery under the direction of...

A Connecticut soldier was killed in action Tuesday in Afghanistan. Army Staff Sgt. Frank E. Adamski III, 26, of Plainfield, was among three soldiers who died of injuries they suffered when their unit was attacked with small arms. The others who died...

SCHOOLS Bloomfield Closed Regional District 14 Del Opening 2 Hours 09/08/2011 06:39am Windsor Locks Public Schools Del Opening 1 1/2 Hours 09/08/2011 06:22am Wooster Del Opening 2 Hours 09/08/2011 06:36am

John Oliver's career as lead correspondent on "The Daily Show," active standup performer and occasional actor in TV and movie comedies is quite different from the goals he had at prestigious University of Cambridge. "I studied English in college, which...

Nine soldiers from Connecticut or with state ties have died in Afghanistan since the start of U.S. operations there in 2001. Sgt. John Chapman, 36, a native of Windsor Locks, died on March 4, 2002 trying to retrieve the body of another serviceman...

Tyler Owen Griffin, a 19-year-old Marine lance corporal from Voluntown, was recently killed in Afghanistan. Voluntown First Selectman Ronald Millovitsch said he spoke to Griffin's stepfather, who confirmed that his stepson had been killed. The stepfather...

Dive teams spent the evening at Green Falls Pond in the Pachaug State Forest in Voluntown, looking for a man who went under while swimming. The DEP says a 21 year old Norwich man died. They say he drowned around 4 this afternoon while swimming with...

9:11 AM EST, December 4, 2008 Voluntown's Carol Girard and her four children were selected this morning as only the second Connecticut family to appear in the popular ABC TV show "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" -- which over the course of the next...