Bloomfield News

AVON: The parade will leave at 11 a.m. Monday from 124 Simsbury Road , with a service afterward on the Town Green.

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Scootie is the name I suggested, roughly 12 years ago, for the Hartford to New Britain busway, and like so many of my brilliant ideas, it was ignored.

This year's theme at the Prosser Public Library is "Dream Big Read At Your Library" for readers pre-school through fourth grade and "Own the Night At Your Library" for readers' fifth grade and up.

Hundreds of attendees recently celebrated both the warm weather and classic cars at Blue Back Square's First Classic Car Show.

Kathy Rivera eyed the pump total warily as she filled the tank of her black Altima Monday at a Capitol Avenue station, and said her family has no plans to drive out of state this Memorial Day weekend.

Laverne E. "Andy" Anderson, 73, of Windsor, Conn., beloved husband of Barbara E. Anderson, went to be with the Lord on Sunday .

Last Sunday, May 20 at the Mass Mutual Center, former Bloomfield High School track standouts and football players, Maurcie Calenda and Dominic Smith, received their college degrees from American International College, in Springfield, Mass.

Teachers and administrators have agreed to a new evaluation system that calls for more frequent classroom visits, real-time analysis and an increased emphasis on student achievement.

Although Deirdre Osypuk will be new to the area when she starts as director of special education and student services for Darien Public Schools July 1, she is not new to the field.

State Sen. Kevin Witkos, R-8, and State Rep. Tim LeGeyt, R-17, spoke to constituents Wednesday about the bills that came out of the short legislative session .

In 1845, a young man from the marble district of the Litchfield Hills arrived in Hartford just as the city's new rail line helped trigger an industrial boom that, by 1870, made it one of the richest small cities in America.

On Thursday, May 24 at 11:15 a.m. at Riverside Park, 20 Leibert Road, Hartford, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar will travel to Hartford to join federal, state, and local leaders and members of the conservation community to announce the National Blueways Initiative.

A Bloomfield school teacher who allegedly struck a student has been placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of an investigation, a source familiar with the investigation said Wednesday.

The first was reported at about 2:30 a.m. on East Euclid Street in Bloomfield. The eight-inch main installed around 1965 broke, interrupting service to about 10 customers.

Susan Murphy, an attorney in Shipman & Goodwin's Hartford office, has been elected to the 2012-2013 Board of Directors of the Hartford County Bar Association.

Representatives from Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, the American Cancer Society, Hartford Hospital and UConn Health Center came together for a check presentation at the American Cancer Society office in Rocky Hill.

Greg Crawford, dean of the College of Science at the University of Notre Dame, is bicycling through many of our communities this week.

Msgr. Jerald A. Doyle, who has been named administrator of the Bridgeport diocese until a new Bishop is installed, at the Catholic Center in Bridgeport on Tuesday, May 22, 2012.

Thanks to a recent fundraiser that netted $45,000 for the Rosanna Davis Fund, talented but needy Bloomfield High School musicians will be able to continue receiving professional music lessons in a college setting for several more years.